Hello! My name is Joaquin Lorenzo "Renzo" De Guzman. This is my blog, The Blog at the End of the Universe, or TBATEOTU</...
A few months ago, I came across one of Dwarkesh's big questions about AI, and I decided to go ahead and lightly muse about the fourth question he posed: What should countries which are not currently in the AI production chain (semis, energy, frontier models, robotics) do in order to not get totally sidestepped by transformative AI? If you’re the leader of India or Nigeria, what do you do right…
Hello! I have a short announcement of some sorts. I am someone who believes in Writing as an art form in itself that deserves way more merit, which only becomes more important amidst today's non-shortage of bland technical reports, sensationalist articles, and AI "slop". I have resolved to practice the art of Creative Writing as my own personal promise to remind myself of my imperfect humanity. I…
With all the time that I have spent here on Earth so far, I have painstakingly found out (don’t ask how) through the years that the one concept which I would gladly impart to anyone struggling with bursting through their hesitation to act is this: Friction is an extremely useful metric to gauge the worth of an activity. ANY activity. The higher the friction-cost of an activity, the more likely it…
Hello there! Hello World! And hello to this community. Finally. This is my first post, and yet I cannot understate how much effort it took me to get this first post up-and-running. I knew that “perfection is the enemy of the good” and all that, and that creating something flawed is the best way (and maybe the ONLY existing way) to share a part of me with the world, but I still felt like I “owed”…