Hi, my name is Felix Benning! I am a developer, mathematician and economist living in Germany.
Well, these are the areas where I am either working professionally, or happen to have an actual degree in. But that hasn’t stopped me from writing unsolicited two cents about a wide range of topics I am interested in.
The best summary of my interest might be, that I am fascinated by fixed costs and thus automation. The concept of creating something which will improve peoples lives in perpetuity is just magnificent. I believe that fixed costs
- are the driving force behind all major economic changes in human history
- cause the explosion in living standards we are currently witnessing
- drive the increasing cooperation between continents, full of better and better educated people
- might be the reason we will never have a world war again
- mean that AI will likely be friendly
- and unfortunately wreck an economic system which is based on marginal costs and competition.
For this reason I am interested in
- economic systems which take full advantage of fixed costs
- artificial intelligence since it is basically “peak fixed cost”
- algorithms, software libraries and architecture
- any other type of automation
If your company is doing any of that - I am intrigued! Send me a message.