Below see some questions I am pondering.
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General Questions
- Where do the boundaries lie?
- How can we all reach a higher frequency in a scalable manner?
- How does one quantify value, hope, & trust? Are these synonyms? Is hope simply confidence and desire?
- What is normal (outside of the scientific definition of the majority)?
- How does one teach problem-solving in a scalable fashion?
- How does one have stakeholders who are active and knowledgeable in governance and the protocol? Which incentives does one need to implement but not so many as to corrupt the system? i.e. in a stakeholder capitalist system.
- What is the difference between regeneration and sustainability?
- What type of data is a fundamental unit that is needed to build on top of? i.e. how oil is made up of carbons but oil is a fundamental building block in our society
- What is the incremental value of data to an AI model such as GPT-4?
- Is there a global index price of data? What is the global data type everyone needs/wants?
- How does physics handle complexity?
- If GDP is concerned with total output, which metric captures the efficiency of the system? In finance is it ROI or ROIC?
- What is the direction/vector of numbers? Does it depend on the context of the number?
- What is consciousness? Where is the barrier between humans and AI superintelligence? Is it self-awareness of being and simultaneously nothingness?
- What is justice?
Questions concerning the individual
- If you were part of a traditional hunter-gatherer society, what role would you play?
- What are the biggest problems you face right now?
- What are the biggest problems you want to solve?
- Do you trust him/her/them?
- Do you think you are lucky?
- What are you currently learning and why?
- Is this action sustainable? Is it regenerative?
- Do you really need to consume that?
- What is the largest mistake you made and how did you overcome it?
- Would you reach the same conclusion when changing the time scales?
- What do you explore?