Few have considered the possibility that Trump has been sent from the future to stop us reaching AGI.

Why is electricity so expensive in Ireland? Irish households are paying 77% more than the EU average. It’s the highest in Europe. Part of the reason why is our failure to build a modern grid. Let’s examine how this happens:

Woman who left S’pore in 2023 after stealing perfume at Changi Airport fined $750 bit.ly/3GgtJlX

Shakespeare and the tariffs of the heart

Always a pleasure to spend a day with the team at Chapelford Medical Centre! Chapelford does really exciting prevention work, and Asterix Health can’t wait to support them to do even more of it very very soon! cc Max Thilo

Negative partisanship is a helluva drug: Up until a few months ago, liberal and conservative Americans held pretty much the same views on free trade. Now, not so much…

DUP’s not what it used to be.

emergent ventures unofficial unconference yesterday. ft Max Thilo announcing a session on how we solve the cost disease (in healthcare). our favourite topic.

Had fun talking to The Human Podcast about progress, politics, & Proust. youtu.be/w8OkYrWKBqM?si…

Narratives of the singularity (sit awareness, AI 2027 etc) assume it will be straightforward to "solve robotics" with powerful AI. But they don't address the challenges in robotic R&D. To get robots that could automate 100% of human tasks, we'll need to improve the hardware.

Delighted to speak with my friend PM Keir Starmer. In a historic milestone, India and the UK have successfully concluded an ambitious and mutually beneficial Free Trade Agreement, along with a Double Contribution Convention. These landmark agreements will further deepen our

AI 2027 forecasts that 200k automated superhuman coders will be accelerating AI research in March 2027, but what are they all going to do? Based on their forecast, each coder only has 20 GPUs to work with. My latest piece on why I think AI 2027 is an unrealistic scenario:

Where is the equivalent of the YIMBY movement for healthcare? Where are the people pointing out the gross violation of economic wisdom, the campaigners for reform against the worst inefficiencies? This field is wide open, and someone should step in and fill the vacuum.

back to work Max Thilo

🎙️ New Anglofuturism episode! 1/ Naval shipbuilding… control of minerals… unleashing of abundant energy… These and many more are the subjects of a trans-institutional masterplan for an American century rather than a Chinese one.

In 1922 Herbert Hoover, then Secretary of Commerce, raised more than a billion dollars in 2025 terms to feed Russians starving from Soviet grain requisitioning and a drought. The American Relief Administration fed 11 million people a day.

we dropped the price of o3 by 80%!! excited to see what people will do with it now. think you'll also be happy with o3-pro pricing for the performance :)

Awesome! The UK has more potential energy than anywhere else on earth right now, IMO, in terms of the gap between what it is and what it could be in a short space of time.

This is a good thread about the dangers of abolishing the HSSIB and the repeated loss of the NHS corporate memory around safety.

Below are the maximum prices we’ll be offering per MWh of power generated from new wind and solar projects, and these prices are guaranteed for the next 20 years. Last year the average price for gas was about £75/MWh. And we can turn on gas whenever we want; solar and wind