And no one knows precisely why. Obviously multi-function: absence of effective industrial policy, insufficient investment in R&D, lagging education, latterly Brexit, and, one fears, something cultural, a collapse in hope and some kind of learned helplessness.

The plural of octopus is not pi: it’s not a Latin word, but Greek. Therefore, octopodes or octopods. But octopuses is perfectly good English.

Historically, every technological revolution has created more, better, different jobs, and grown wealth (however unevenly at first), rather than instituting Keynes’s “technological unemployment”. This is an observation, rather than an economic law; but I should be very surprised

No, peptides can’t do that. (Deep Tech VC who has invested in peptides here.)

Happy DCVC is on this list from Ilya Strebulaev of Stanford University in such august company. A number of the folks here were defining how to create big wins for all stakeholders back when I was still jealous that 1978 Apple IIs had color graphics and my Z80 box did not… 😉

I don’t understand—well, I do; but it does him no credit—how Hinton can be so world-historic-level smart about weights, algorithms, and maths, and so conceptually wrong and philosophically at sea.

Terrific CNN coverage of DCVC co @FervoEnergy! #nearLimitless #geothermal cnn.com/2025/07/22/cli…

DCVC portfolio company kanvasbio (where I’m chair) is leader in this field. It has pioneered a spatial biology platform that can describe host-microbiome interactions at the level of the transcriptome. Next, breakthrough Tx that can drug the microbiome like any other organ.

I don’t speak for aerospace engineering and rocket science, but there’s a real difference in the life and material sciences between research and engineering. What’s less well understood is that it’s breakthroughs in *tools*—new microscopes or imaging, new methods in data science

Welcome Professor Prineha ("Pri") Narang, who will be helping @dcvc execute our quantum computing strategy. More detail about that strategy at the link.

Very happy to work with Dr. Prineha Narang, a brilliant quantum systems expert helping DCVC double down on our historic quantum tech investing leadership (material positions in most of today's leaders & IPOs eg, rigetti, IonQ, D-Wave, Q-CTRL, Atom Computing )

This is, in fact, true. We’ve even made a new vaccine without the offending particle. Not yet approved.

I cannot prove you are conscious. Nonetheless, I’ve good reason to believe you are. I cannot prove LLMs are not conscious. And yet I’ve every reason to believe they are not.

I did that interview with the late Gene Wolfe.

The answer, per Damasio, is (1) Not conscious; (2) Minimally conscious: possessed of fly-sized feelings, homeostatically regulating its fly body, from which emerge fly-sized emotions, from which emerge fly-sized consciousness. But not self-conscious at all.