Andrew Kortina
5 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Nov 20, 2018 by Andrew Kortina · across every show →
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Nov 20, 2018 negative
Kortina: Buddhism does not motivate civilizations to attempt massive projects
“I had this thought once, like, you know, Buddhists are not gonna get us off this planet when the sun burns out. Like, it's a very From my sort of, you know, 50,000 foot view of it seems like a very like internal focused life is struggling. How do I cope with t…”
Nov 20, 2018
Kortina: Virtual assistants must be generalists to compete with humans
“With Finn, we're competing with a full-time human assistant and a full-time human assistant will just do whatever you ask them... If we built that, we just wouldn't be competitive with a human assistant. So we kind of took into this, we have to be able to do a…”
Nov 20, 2018
Kortina: Linking dignity to productive work is dangerous in post-scarcity
“As that becomes less necessary and there's more abundance, then we're less sort of resource constrained. That connection between dignity and, like, doing useful work maybe becomes dangerous, and, like, if, you know, maybe not everyone has to be productive, may…”
Nov 20, 2018 positive
Kortina: Venmo prioritized transaction notes to humanize peer-to-peer payments
“Actually we wanted to kind of like humanize the money and make it less about the dollars and cents and more. That's why the note is like such a focal point of them. I was like, what is the thing that you're doing? What does the moment that you're sharing with …”