Progress Studies
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Progress Studies
Governments sporadically got things spectacularly wrong. In 1865, the rail and horse-drawn carriage lobbies in the U.K. drummed up enough outrage to pass the Locomotive Act, whose most notable feature was an absurd requirement that a man walk in front of any self-propelled vehicle waving a red flag and blowing a horn. It stunted the U.K. automobile... See more
Matt Boulos • Towards guardrails, not guidelines: a policy framework for powerful AI systems
In 2010, people still thought the main application of mobile was coupons.
@yishan set them straight.
World's Hardest Problems
Sustainability + Human Development Is the food we eat scalable, sustainable, healthy, nutritious and tasty? Is the air we breathe clean? Is the water we drink pure? Is there a way to produce energy that is relatively abundant, cheap and clean? Is there a way to reverse or mitigate climate chan...
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#264 - Tim Urban: Elon Musk, Neuralink, AI, Aliens, and the Future of Humanity | Lex Fridman Podcast
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Progress is challenging, not due to a lack of imagination but due to the lack of a blank canvas Maybe Mars is the blank canvas we need to bring us all together