Announcements
“Vast is developing artificial gravity space stations to expand humanity across the solar system”
Derek Thompson and Ezra Klein are writing a book about abundance (@DKThomp)
Foresight DAO to seed-fund “projects in longevity, nanotechnology, BCIs, private computing, and space tech that are too ambitious for legacy funders to support” (via @foresightinst)
FTX Future Fund offering up to $1.5M in prizes to change their minds on AGI x-risk (via @leopoldasch)
Quotes
Retweets
Thread from the International Manufacturing Technology Show, “devoted to CNC mills, grinders, robot arms, metrology, CAD, 3D printing etc” (@Ben_Reinhardt)
With mRNA, we can create a much more effective annual flu shot (@calebwatney)
Two schoolkids who don’t speak the same language chatted for a whole bus ride using Google Translate (@johnjhorton)
When you optimize a proxy, you make progress for a while, but then you start overoptimizing (@janleike)
Frederick Douglass on “the good luck theory of self-made men” (@mbateman)
Queries
Books on the founding of research universities? (@acesounderglass)
What don’t people get, or fully appreciate, about your job? (@DKThomp)
Pics
Me speaking at MIT to the Boston ACX and MIT EA groups (via @moreisdifferent). (That sketch on the chalkboard behind me was me trying to replicate this graph from Max Roser)
Poetry
Apropos of nothing: “Compensation,” by Theodosia Pickering Garrison (1874-1944)
This is an endlessly frustrating debate, because most people cannot distinguish between “S ⇒ W” and “W ⇒ S”, where S is success and W is hard work.
“How dare you say W ⤃ S ? If you actually look at the data, it is obvious that S ⇒ W !”