Link post
City size is determined by transportation technology (Tomas Pueyo)
Did any sci-fi predict that when AI arrived, it would be unreliable, often illogical, and frequently bullshitting?
Sam Altman: in the next decade the marginal cost of intelligence and of energy will trend to zero
Where to, Mr. Chemist? “To a thousand untouched shores” (Du Pont, 1939)
Longevity escape velocity
Study by Philip Tetlock finds “a pervasive tendency… to see things as getting worse than they really are”
“Scientists may find themselves reporting only successful experiments”
Sustainability is the disease, people are the cure
For the first 40 years of photography, handheld cameras were impossible
How communication and transportation networks help eliminate famine
Data on European pipeline gas and storage? (@Atomicrod)
“Abundance is the only cure for scarcity… Everything else merely allocates scarcity” (@samhinkie, quoting @patio11)
Converting coal plants into nuclear with small modular reactors. But: Congress ordered the NRC to provide a pathway for new reactors—and they made the process more burdensome (@AlecStapp)
Photographer uses AI to generate image variations from his own photos (@jonst0kes)
If you want home values to go up, you don’t want homes to be affordable (@JerusalemDemsas)
The bureaucracy feedback loop, green card edition (@nabeelqu)
How Theodor Engelmann demonstrated that chloroplasts are the site of oxygen production in plants (@strandbergbio)
Progress links and tweets, 2022-12-29
Link post
Links
City size is determined by transportation technology (Tomas Pueyo)
Tweets
Did any sci-fi predict that when AI arrived, it would be unreliable, often illogical, and frequently bullshitting?
Sam Altman: in the next decade the marginal cost of intelligence and of energy will trend to zero
Where to, Mr. Chemist? “To a thousand untouched shores” (Du Pont, 1939)
Longevity escape velocity
Study by Philip Tetlock finds “a pervasive tendency… to see things as getting worse than they really are”
“Scientists may find themselves reporting only successful experiments”
Quotes
Sustainability is the disease, people are the cure
For the first 40 years of photography, handheld cameras were impossible
How communication and transportation networks help eliminate famine
Queries
Data on European pipeline gas and storage? (@Atomicrod)
Retweets
“Abundance is the only cure for scarcity… Everything else merely allocates scarcity” (@samhinkie, quoting @patio11)
Converting coal plants into nuclear with small modular reactors. But: Congress ordered the NRC to provide a pathway for new reactors—and they made the process more burdensome (@AlecStapp)
Photographer uses AI to generate image variations from his own photos (@jonst0kes)
If you want home values to go up, you don’t want homes to be affordable (@JerusalemDemsas)
The bureaucracy feedback loop, green card edition (@nabeelqu)
How Theodor Engelmann demonstrated that chloroplasts are the site of oxygen production in plants (@strandbergbio)