This is Plastic. Made with Veo3. Spoilers in the next post. Watch before reading

anyone come across anyone who is doing great thinking / writing specifically on the coming economic and societal transition period when AI + robotics begin to take large numbers of job classes permanently away from humans? how it may play out?

important more people start thinking about how we safely transition to an AI driven economy without societal collapse, vs purely focusing on AI alignment risk. needs serious prospective economic policy work. i plan to write up some long-form thoughts on this

very cool and ambitious vision to tech-reindustrialize in california. love it

I get that the Trump-Elon breakup is fun to watch, but folks, what we (in our wee bio-corner of the world) really want is Trump to break up with RFK Jr.

imagine the confusion among the hardcore MAGA trump people that just bought a tesla in solidarity

casually sliding into the future very soon the most important problem in the world will become "how does society successfully transition economically between now and "post scarcity", when all economic agency will rapidly disappear for most. we must prospectively avoid mass

gotta love the turn of events: Israel, sworn enemy of the islamic republic of iran, may finally be the liberator of the Iranian people from religious tyranny

very cool catalyst and accelerant in a high leverage moment for computer scientists to have outsized impact

“It is extremely alarming that the only candidates who genuinely excite our voters are the ones making absolutely insane promises on politically toxic positions,” one Dem strategist tells Playbook’s Adam Wren. “Leaving us in the spot of trying to execute on bad policy and losing

with these 1,000 page mega bills, LLMs make this the first time in history our policymakers can plausibly even know what they are voting on. before this, i guess just blind chaos to 99% of what got voted into law in any given pork package

interesting observation -- that first principles reasoning and creativity may initially trade off. seems solvable in post training or mixture of expert models though

important paper and finding with material implications for predictive systems biology

👏 Figure amazing + useful demo

ready player one here we come!

Building a globally competitive US biotech in 2025: > Focus on novel biology why? —> The Chinese biotech VC ecosystem struggles to fund novel biology (actively disincentivizes going after non clinically validated targets) —> The US biotech ecosystem struggles to execute on

late retweet, but very important finding providing further evidence that chronic inflammatory signaling drives immune exhaustion and suppression, and (likely) significantly holds back responses to checkpoint inhibition

is there a word for the customer service strategy where the incompetence level is so high that the customer will just pay whatever it takes to end the interaction and move on with their life, thus validating the behavior as good for their business?

amazing essay on some core differences between Chinese and US power and engineering prowess: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…