The Techno Optimist
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Daily clips of the world’s leading techno-optimists. 🚀
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Chamath Palihapitiya Chamath Palihapitiya "Bro, there is no failure." "That is what other people think of you to keep you down. There's no failure. If you were left on an island and it happened, you would just brush it off and move on. It's everybody else that you think is judging you. But then, here's the secret. They don't give a fuck about you. They are living their own lives. So it's your perception of what they think of you." "There is no failure. There's do and learn. Do and learn. Do and learn. Do and learn." Stanford AI Lab
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.Isaiah Taylor - making nuclear reactors on what cheap nuclear energy actually means: "A lot of our food cost comes from the cost of synthetic nitrogen, which is essentially the cost of energy, because we use natural gas in the Haber-Bosch process to make nitrogen for our crops. And we were thinking about manufacturing and we were thinking about chemical production and what are the materials in the world going to look like when we can produce them at a fifth of the cost of today?" — Isaiah Taylor, Founder & CEO of Valar Atomics, on the Madison Malone podcast
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Bill Gurley on how far behind the U.S. is on energy: "China built about 500 gigawatts of solar last year. The U.S. built about 50. China has 40 nuclear power plants under construction. The U.S. is zero. I think the U.S. needs to build a lot more and I think the challenge is that these are like hyperlocal problems in which homeowners and NIMBYs are able to file suit three times a day before breakfast." — Bill Gurley, Founder of P3 Institute, with Dan Wang, Author of Breakneck
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The pope is wrong on AI says Bill Gurley on the The All-In Podcast "This encyclical was mirrored after one done by Leo XIII in 1891. Leo XIII encyclical warned that the Industrial Revolution was going to be bad for people." "So let me tell you what happened from 1891 till today. The work week went from over 60 hours to 34 hours globally. Real wages went up 8 to 10x adjusted for inflation. The medium worker now earns more than a doctor did in 1891. Global GDP per capita went from $1,500 to $20,000. Child labor in the U.S. went from 18% to zero. Workplace deaths fell by 40x. Life expectancy went up 60%. And global poverty went from 75% of humanity to under 10%. All those things happened because of technology, innovation, and capitalism, which is exactly what Leo XIII was warning against. So he got it dead wrong. He got the whole thing precisely wrong. So it's an interesting thing to say you're borrowing from."
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Tyler Cowen thinks there's probably alien life on Saturn's moons: "I would bet 60-40, yes. But not life like us. It might be little shrimpy things or even just something like bacteria... Will we send robots to communicate with the little shrimpy things on the moons of Saturn? Absolutely. And if I'm around then, I'll be dying to see what's there. But I'm not sure how much that will matter. Odds are, if you look at the history of life on Earth, most of the time, super intelligent life, such as humans, was not on Earth. So probably on the moons of Saturn, if they have life, it won't be super intelligent. You can watch your new documentaries on BBC, the little shrimpy things swimming around, whatever they do. And kids will grow up with it. And it'll just be like, 'Oh, we discovered a rhinoceros in Africa,' which was a big deal. Everyone in Europe got excited. They put one on a boat and all that. But at the end of the day, maybe it was not a major event in world history" — tylercowen on the Finn Murphy's Forecast 2050 podcast
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