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someone should slap together a Slate electric truck modkit for a proportional Farmbot + hoop house, and one for a water tank, then stack those in a caravan. if selfdriving really works out, the summer on the American continent could be thousands of trips with freshwater from the easter seaboard (especially great lakes), pushing fresh produce west to the arid regions. could even go crazy and create one modkit that only needs recharging & minimal rehydration at highway waystations along the way, to distant neighborhoods with some kind of "truck farm share" model. the future should look like the future, and clever water transportation is a precursor to that.

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time to accelerate plumbing tech: https://www.ans.org/news/2025-05-08/article-6961/hightemperature-plumbing-and-advanced-reactors/

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lesson in this. viltrumites spread from planet to planet, which are really just solar cells. any SMR renaissance carries long-lasting risk, too. but better to displace the contested prize.

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biorisk conjecture is dwarfed by overt bioinformatic good. in retrospect, we'll see that the decentralized breadth of biological AI is the greatest check on concrete harms. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.30.651413v1

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ngl, this is what I hope the crypto stockpile can be a carrot for: https://x.com/pronounced_kyle/status/1918682592452456525 we need power plants and datacenters. why not emit ETH to homesteads who procure enough resilient offgrid power and comms to become validators, eventually provers (like /faust)? or, considering https://medium.com/chick-fil-atech/enterprise-restaurant-compute-f5e2fd63d20f, why not distribute BTC stockpile for additional long-term appendages (like Buc-ee's) to the National Highway System, balancing out the load?

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Applications now open for the 2025 Roots of Progress Blog-Building Intensive! Improve your writing skills, learn from leading progress builders and intellectuals, and publish essays about progress: https://rootsofprogress.org/fellowship

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the power must flow. can the demand for interconnect be solved by onchain communities?

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now the question becomes: what does "Droam" entail? is it about power or isolation?

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Impossible sci-fi nonsense, the shadow of the Great War, heliocentrism, the bottom-up abundance agenda, institutional sclerosis, and much more: https://newsletter.rootsofprogress.org/p/links-and-short-notes-2025-04-23

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humanity would greatly accelerate if china improved their rule of law in order to receive more diverse international investors and builders https://x.com/BrianRoemmele/status/1914895885072535811

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Why was progress so slow, for so long? And were the last few centuries a fluke, a lucky windfall of progress, after which we should expect a regression to the mean of slow growth? Or were they part of a trend that we can expect to continue? https://newsletter.rootsofprogress.org/p/the-flywheel

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my pet enterprise is the belief that 1) residential properties can handle enough solar PV for all appliance needs 2) households will eventually subsist on local economic agents 3) revenue for intensive energy production/consumption (i.e. nuclear + water treatment) is unavoidable for sincere humanitarian adaptation to climate change carrying capacity of Earth for all applications and OOM population increase is nowhere close to saturated. the politics "above the node" are the kludge.

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what if Farcaster pooled resources for a MSR-powered industrial zone?

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Announcing Progress Conference 2025! Oct 16-19 in Berkeley, CA Speakers include Sam Altman, Tyler Cowen, Jennifer Pahlka, and Blake Scholl Last year several people said it was the best conference they had ever attended, full stop (!) Applications are open now! https://rootsofprogress.org/conference

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“Stopping climate change” is the wrong goal. It is an anti-human, anti-agency framing, focused on negating the impacts of human activity. The techno-humanist framing is that humanity should create *climate control* https://newsletter.rootsofprogress.org/p/we-should-install-a-thermostat-on

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