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Conversations about effective accelerationism

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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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the spice must flow https://www.valaratomics.com/docs/Valar-Atomics-is-Suing-the-NRC

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> Using AI effectively is now a fundamental expectation of everyone at Shopify. https://x.com/tobi/status/1909251946235437514

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When? https://x.com/minchoi/status/1908521169214382348/video/1

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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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