Link post
UK Great Stagnation summit in July, apply to attend (via @s8mb)
Help Bryan Bishop create an enzyme that makes DNA based on digital instructions
The Cybersecurity Grant Program, $1M for AI-based cybersecurity (from @OpenAI)
Foundations & Frontiers, a magazine about future technologies (via @annasofialesiv)
An dig through the Extropian archives (via @ATabarrok)
Orwell against progress
“Coasean democracy” is the solution to Britain’s sclerosis (by @s8mb)
Is there a good summary of all the different proposals for how to regulate AI?
Have any of you read Samuel Butler’s Erewhon (1872)? I could use some exegesis
A book about economic history that focuses on how technology was scaled?
Is there a counterfactual world where we’re still pre-industrial?
Are self-driving cars still using control theory, with AI used only for sensors?
Has anybody made an actually good publicly editable database?
Most people have no idea how much retail has gotten better over the last ~150 years
An urban planner responds to my post on regulation
Many people think self-driving failed, but there are customers in driverless taxis now
The meaning of mortality declines
The oldest known depiction of a steam-using atmospheric engine? From 1654!
Desalination was a big technological success story of the 2010s
Rewarding AI for a correct thought process, not just the right answer
Humans correctly guessed an LLM chat agent was an AI only 60% of the time
LLMs will be units within larger orchestrated systems
Environmental regulations are an all-purpose tool to indefinitely delay anything
Should we build underground cities? (Maybe not, say @ConnorTabarrok and Casey Handmer). Related thread on underground apartments.)
Is it virtuous to assign probabilities to all uncertainty?
The UK continued to get rich after the end of empire (GDP growth actually increased)
Iterative change is slow but over time it moves the world
Progress links and tweets, 2023-06-07
Link post
Announcements & opportunities
UK Great Stagnation summit in July, apply to attend (via @s8mb)
Help Bryan Bishop create an enzyme that makes DNA based on digital instructions
The Cybersecurity Grant Program, $1M for AI-based cybersecurity (from @OpenAI)
Foundations & Frontiers, a magazine about future technologies (via @annasofialesiv)
Links
An dig through the Extropian archives (via @ATabarrok)
Orwell against progress
“Coasean democracy” is the solution to Britain’s sclerosis (by @s8mb)
Queries
Is there a good summary of all the different proposals for how to regulate AI?
Have any of you read Samuel Butler’s Erewhon (1872)? I could use some exegesis
A book about economic history that focuses on how technology was scaled?
Is there a counterfactual world where we’re still pre-industrial?
Are self-driving cars still using control theory, with AI used only for sensors?
Has anybody made an actually good publicly editable database?
Tweets
Most people have no idea how much retail has gotten better over the last ~150 years
An urban planner responds to my post on regulation
Many people think self-driving failed, but there are customers in driverless taxis now
The meaning of mortality declines
The oldest known depiction of a steam-using atmospheric engine? From 1654!
Desalination was a big technological success story of the 2010s
Rewarding AI for a correct thought process, not just the right answer
Humans correctly guessed an LLM chat agent was an AI only 60% of the time
LLMs will be units within larger orchestrated systems
Environmental regulations are an all-purpose tool to indefinitely delay anything
Should we build underground cities? (Maybe not, say @ConnorTabarrok and Casey Handmer). Related thread on underground apartments.)
Is it virtuous to assign probabilities to all uncertainty?
Charts
The UK continued to get rich after the end of empire (GDP growth actually increased)
Iterative change is slow but over time it moves the world