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Conversations about effective accelerationism

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My tentative bottom line is: solar + batteries can be great for specific applications that don’t need very high availability; and they can work as part of an overall system of supplying power to the grid; but they won’t supply all power to the grid in the foreseeable future. My current, partial understanding of a tricky question: https://newsletter.rootsofprogress.org/p/how-much-does-it-cost-to-back-up

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The 150-year history of d/acc, a $120M progress fund, fertility on demand, 19th-century kids' sci-fi, the real lesson of Cassandra’s curse, giving the Devil the benefit of law, and more: https://newsletter.rootsofprogress.org/p/links-and-short-notes-2025-03-18

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imho, humanity's ability to perturb both nature and entirely imaginary constructs should indicate that we possess a quality that cannot be paperclipped. also, I think smartglasses perturb more than just FPV encoding, rather it can even falsify all hypotheses that involve FPV observation. https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.11646

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Here's the punchline from my talk for @vitalik.eth's d/acc Day: How each ~generation of the 20th century scored on the three core principles of d/acc. The talk was a whirlwind tour of how society has thought about progress, decentralization & risk over the last 150 years. Starts here, runs about 7 minutes: https://youtube.com/live/b45hakfN1cM?t=2939s

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d/acc Day livestream: https://www.youtube.com/live/b45hakfN1cM @vitalik.eth starts us off at 10am Pacific; I'm slated for 10:40

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I'll be speaking at @vitalik.eth's “d/acc Day” at Berkeley on Thursday My talk: “d/acc: The first 150 years.” A whirlwind tour of how society has thought about progress, decentralization and defense over the last century and a half Should be livestreamed and recorded https://lu.ma/o99rcou9

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https://warpcast.com/horsefacts.eth/0x38bb356e

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A visible sonic boom, AI in SaaS, progress on permitting reform, fewer tornado deaths, the closing of the frontier, Rousseau and Kant vs. the Age of Reason, and more https://newsletter.rootsofprogress.org/p/links-and-short-notes-2025-03-10

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What’s the solution e/acc?

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The Techno-Humanist Manifesto, Chapter 5: Solutionism (part 2) There is no tradeoff between health/safety and progress, because health and safety are a part of progress. But the technical work of health and safety has gone mostly unsung https://newsletter.rootsofprogress.org/p/solutionism-part-2

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Thomas Mattimore

i'm fairly optimistic about AI and technology. one thing that legitimately concerns me: enemy nation states using LLM bot armies to spread FUD about freedom and merit and building good things. this is very "cheap" to do now. not sure our societal immune system is ready for it. how can crypto fix this?

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Progress studies in university and high school, a positive supply shock for truth, the hinge of history, Elon in perpetual wartime, Dean Ball on AI liability, Kevin Kelly on the handoff to bots, and more: https://newsletter.rootsofprogress.org/p/links-and-short-notes-2025-03-03

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Can you feel the acceleration?

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Save the date: Progress Conference 2025 will be October 16–19 in Berkeley, CA Hosted by the Roots of Progress Institute together with the Abundance Institute, the Foresight Institute, the Foundation for American Innovation, HumanProgress, the Institute for Humane Studies, and Works in Progress magazine. Speakers and more details to be announced this spring. https://rootsofprogress.org/conference

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I'm curious how this plays out, whether it quickly facilitates deep speculation, or quickly displaces routine corporate procedure (e.g. patent hijinks). phi-4-multimodal looks promising, besides gemini-2. always an open question when mobile reasoning can collaborate en masse. https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.18864

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