Super important article imo. Only comment is that technology's goal isn't just to decrease scarcity, but also to reduce suffering. In any case, the long term goals still converge on mortality reduction.

Despite the fact almost all periods of progress come down to new forms of easier energy extraction, it's not often explained in those terms. Even the transition to fossil fuels = global telepathy, food abundance, and the moon landing. What would an equivalent leap mean?

The Great Stagnation is coming to an end: “A nuclear fusion start-up backed by Silicon Valley investor Sam Altman and Peter Thiel’s Mithril Capital has secured $500m to demonstrate commercially viable power by 2024”

More atoms-based optimisation please

This is huge. Fingers crossed it gets through. msn.com/en-in/news/oth…

The trouble when designing God is you have to design out the devil. Which is, literally in this case, in the details.

Ok so I’m very excited about the future

What does the exponential curve of increasing difficulty look like as you increase diameter from 4ft (Nebula M1) to 30ft (Starship)? Like, are they halfway, or are they 0.001% there?

This 👇

Given that the Emu War is approaching its 80th anniversary, I asked #dalle2 to use NASA Webb Telescope as inspiration for part 2: The Space Emu War.

Some custom voice assistant chatter for your listening pleasure this weekend. Mark Fosdike CEO of Datch on Custom Voice Assistants for Industrial Manufacturing - Voicebot Podcast Ep 270 - voicebot.ai voicebot.ai/2022/09/02/mar…

I've never seen VCs make a bigger mistake than generative AI. They are funding many projects that are destined to be abject failures. Even worse, they are totally missing the places where ML will actually have impact and generate enterprise value. Let me explain:

Prepping us for GPT-4?

B2C investments are about to make a come back.

This was the moment humans shifted our creative talent back to the hard problems of the real world. Released from the relentless burden of building software.