Why do you not see this as being a problem? The sequence of events Sam sketched out is pretty logical. It hinges on machines being able to optimize for "survive and reproduce", which feels very plausible to me.

Forbes has a number of such 30 under 30 lists - each one linked in the blog post (Consumer Tech, Enterprise Tech, Food & Drink, etc) is a separate list of 30. So the number of people named to Forbes 30 under 30 this year is greater than 30 total.

The Wikipedia page on Presidents of the US shows a timeline that matches the one in this article nicely: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Presidents_of_the_Unite...

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Sam has a great blog post about this: http://blog.samaltman.com/non-technical-founder-learn-to-hac...

The title says it all - learn to hack.

That was a great blog post, thank you for sharing that with me. I'm going to start learning how to build my own prototype.

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that seems to prevent one from clicking any of the links. Makes filing taxes somewhat difficult.

Only according to the dictionary. It's pretty common parlance in this context. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onboarding

Yes, definitely. Google gets over a million applications per year as of 3 years ago [1]; it's feasible that Yahoo would get half of that now.

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The list of teams demoing is at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aha_Rxus9XXSdER...

Action is starting in 10 minutes, and demos themselves should be starting in 20-25