Jason Crawford (@jasoncrawford) 's Twitter Profile
Jason Crawford

@jasoncrawford

Founder, @rootsofprogress. I write about the history of technology and the philosophy of progress. Working to build the progress community and movement

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Megan McArdle (@asymmetricinfo) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Antitrust isn’t about punishing success, and it won’t harm innovation, say the trustbusters as the US investigates NVidia for happening to have a valuable market niche during an AI boom.

Brendan McCord 🏛️ x 🤖 (@mbrendan1) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The world creates moments when philosophy matters. 250 years ago, America's founders turned philosophy into law. Today, our revolutionary AI moment demands translating philosophy into code, to promote human flourishing. The Cosmos Institute launches to tackle this challenge:

Des Traynor (@destraynor) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Watch this drone deliver 2 hot lattes straight to my back garden this morning. The flight was only 158 seconds. A truly incredible experience from Manna Drone Delivery in Dublin. Technology is Awesome.

Our World in Data (@ourworldindata) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Vaccines account for 40% of the decline in infant mortality over the last 50 years. Infant mortality rates have plummeted over the last 50 years. Globally, they’ve fallen by over two-thirds, from around 10% in 1974 to less than 3% today. A recent study — published in The Lancet

Vaccines account for 40% of the decline in infant mortality over the last 50 years.

Infant mortality rates have plummeted over the last 50 years. Globally, they’ve fallen by over two-thirds, from around 10% in 1974 to less than 3% today.

A recent study — published in The Lancet
Google DeepMind (@googledeepmind) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We’re presenting AlphaProteo: an AI system for designing novel proteins that bind more successfully to target molecules. 🧬 It could help scientists better understand how biological systems function, save time in research, advance drug design and more. 🧵 dpmd.ai/3XuMqbX

Amjad Masad (@amasad) 's Twitter Profile Photo

AI is incredible at writing code. But that's not enough to create software. You need to set up a dev environment, install packages, configure DB, and, if lucky, deploy. It's time to automate all this. Announcing Replit Agent in early access—available today for subscribers:

Brendan McCord 🏛️ x 🤖 (@mbrendan1) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Your ideas on human autonomy in the age of AI could take you to a Feast at Oxford with visionary thinkers. We welcome you to the first ***Cosmos essay contest*** Think you can offer a fresh perspective on AI, or new ways to mine the wisdom of the past? Here's what you'll win:

Your ideas on human autonomy in the age of AI could take you to a Feast at Oxford with visionary thinkers.

We welcome you to the first ***Cosmos essay contest***

Think you can offer a fresh perspective on AI, or new ways to mine the wisdom of the past?

Here's what you'll win:
Jeff Dean (@🏡) (@jeffdean) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Very nice site with safety data from 22M miles of rider-only driving data from Waymo. I'll draw your attention to this graph of data from Phoenix+San Francisco (where 21M of those miles happened). Injury-reported-crash rates are 3.65X lower than vs human drivers! (0.8 vs. 2.92

Very nice site with safety data from 22M  miles of rider-only driving data from <a href="/Waymo/">Waymo</a>. I'll draw your attention to this graph of data from Phoenix+San Francisco (where 21M of those miles happened).  Injury-reported-crash rates are 3.65X lower than vs human drivers! (0.8 vs. 2.92