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“Vast is developing artificial gravity space stations to expand humanity across the solar system”
Derek Thompson and Ezra Klein are writing a book about abundance (@DKThomp)
Foresight DAO to seed-fund “projects in longevity, nanotechnology, BCIs, private computing, and space tech that are too ambitious for legacy funders to support” (via @foresightinst)
FTX Future Fund offering up to $1.5M in prizes to change their minds on AGI x-risk (via @leopoldasch)
Even before the locomotive, road and coach improvements alone sped up stagecoach travel by 4x in the 1700s
If you think today’s food additives are unhealthy…
The “control revolution”
Engage with criticism, but don’t worry too much about critics
Thread from the International Manufacturing Technology Show, “devoted to CNC mills, grinders, robot arms, metrology, CAD, 3D printing etc” (@Ben_Reinhardt)
With mRNA, we can create a much more effective annual flu shot (@calebwatney)
Two schoolkids who don’t speak the same language chatted for a whole bus ride using Google Translate (@johnjhorton)
Belgium closing a nuclear plant that produces almost 10% of its electricity is “civilizational controlled flight into terrain” (@patrickc)
When you optimize a proxy, you make progress for a while, but then you start overoptimizing (@janleike)
Frederick Douglass on “the good luck theory of self-made men” (@mbateman)
Books on the founding of research universities? (@acesounderglass)
What don’t people get, or fully appreciate, about your job? (@DKThomp)
What do you call a newsletter writer? (@vgr)
Me speaking at MIT to the Boston ACX and MIT EA groups (via @moreisdifferent). (That sketch on the chalkboard behind me was me trying to replicate this graph from Max Roser)
Apropos of nothing: “Compensation,” by Theodosia Pickering Garrison (1874-1944)
Progress links and tweets, 2022-09-28
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Announcements
“Vast is developing artificial gravity space stations to expand humanity across the solar system”
Derek Thompson and Ezra Klein are writing a book about abundance (@DKThomp)
Foresight DAO to seed-fund “projects in longevity, nanotechnology, BCIs, private computing, and space tech that are too ambitious for legacy funders to support” (via @foresightinst)
FTX Future Fund offering up to $1.5M in prizes to change their minds on AGI x-risk (via @leopoldasch)
Quotes
Even before the locomotive, road and coach improvements alone sped up stagecoach travel by 4x in the 1700s
If you think today’s food additives are unhealthy…
The “control revolution”
Engage with criticism, but don’t worry too much about critics
Retweets
Thread from the International Manufacturing Technology Show, “devoted to CNC mills, grinders, robot arms, metrology, CAD, 3D printing etc” (@Ben_Reinhardt)
With mRNA, we can create a much more effective annual flu shot (@calebwatney)
Two schoolkids who don’t speak the same language chatted for a whole bus ride using Google Translate (@johnjhorton)
Belgium closing a nuclear plant that produces almost 10% of its electricity is “civilizational controlled flight into terrain” (@patrickc)
When you optimize a proxy, you make progress for a while, but then you start overoptimizing (@janleike)
Frederick Douglass on “the good luck theory of self-made men” (@mbateman)
Queries
Books on the founding of research universities? (@acesounderglass)
What don’t people get, or fully appreciate, about your job? (@DKThomp)
What do you call a newsletter writer? (@vgr)
Pics
Me speaking at MIT to the Boston ACX and MIT EA groups (via @moreisdifferent). (That sketch on the chalkboard behind me was me trying to replicate this graph from Max Roser)
Poetry
Apropos of nothing: “Compensation,” by Theodosia Pickering Garrison (1874-1944)