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Conversations about effective accelerationism

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sometimes the most effective element is the right lever for the right fulcrum https://www.nature.com/articles/s41477-025-02093-8

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The 19th century enthusiastically celebrated inventive and industrial achievements: with parades and fireworks, in speeches and advertisements, in art and poetry, in World's Fairs. From Chapter 9 of The Techno-Humanist Manifesto: https://newsletter.rootsofprogress.org/p/the-spirit-we-lost-part-1

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Project Bob off to an intermittent start. https://x.com/andrewmccalip/status/1965090982246175176

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very excited for this hope Bob survives the high seas, pirates, and dragons https://x.com/andrewmccalip/status/1964821019648299018

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Isn’t this why so many of us went all in on crypto? We need more can’t be evil tech tech as we accelerate. Another reason crypto is vital.

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I used to think they were printing too much and productivity would never be able to catch up. I’m starting to suspect the opposite is the case.

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The Techno-Humanist Manifesto, Chapter 8: The Unlimited Horizon, part 2 We are all poor by the standards of the future. But there is no bold, ambitious vision of the future in mainstream culture. Here is one, based on mastery over all aspects of nature https://newsletter.rootsofprogress.org/p/the-unlimited-horizon-part-2

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This gpt5 cancer patient story is why I don’t give a flying fck about job loss. These are fake problems. Dying of cancer is a real problem. When you’re there you just want help. You don’t give a fck about philosophy. When you or your loved ones are in trouble, you want help. Accelerate this tech all the way.

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A fly’s eye flickers at a thousand frames per second; to it, our lives are glacial.

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I say that current AI is AGI. It is not obvious yet, because we haven’t yet connected very complex and fragmented software and data environments – and for R&D to turn into real-world change is a multi-year process anyway.

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This blog post was thought-provoking: https://www.orcasciences.com/articles/the-future-is-made-of-energy It centers around "dematerialization": Materials with better performance tend to require more energy to make but allow us to use less raw material to make superior products, creating a trend where products become less "matter-intensive" and more energy-intensive. "In the 1960s Coke came in glass bottles. Fragile melted sand. Today Coke comes in aluminum cans – a material that takes tremendously more energy to produce, but ends up being cleaner and cheaper and 40x lighter than glass holding the same amount of liquid. The same transformation has happened in almost every corner of our material lives." Looking at the most important modern materials we use (e.g. steel) from this perspective, and trying to extrapolate from there takes you interesting places.

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The Techno-Humanist Manifesto, Chapter 8: The Unlimited Horizon, part 1 Is industrial production the end of economic history? Or could AI usher in a fourth age of humanity—an intelligence age? https://newsletter.rootsofprogress.org/p/the-unlimited-horizon-part-1

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no Volcker, microtransistors and personal computing would have reached a different economy of scale. unlikely, but the proliferation of digital scientific instrumentation may have still discovered fracking and natgas, so altogether the calculus for domestic manufacturing would be too good to offshore. intercity rail may have scaled differently, so suburban development may have scaled differently. immigration policy would have needed to expand further. mass media would have differentiated further, internet would be even more convenient, and neural networks would have been further explored. meanwhile, global commerce would go brrr as the reserve currency would be that much more attractive. although, all of this may still have never happened because history, like nature, is a fickle beast.

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Could this drive the cost of IVF to $0? Steps toward progress https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/03/health/ai-male-infertility-sperm-wellness

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HF is chasing this, btw: https://huggingface.co/blog/cgeorgiaw/constellaration-fusion-challenge

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