Tagged “future”

Some related disenchantment from HN

very HN that first reply is "work on open-source software"

interesting to watch if we can finally make recycling financially viable

Generative Pre-trained Transformer for Biomedical Text Generation and Mining

Key things are it being repairable, with materials that can be sourced locally, and techniques that can be taught/learned.

interesting for the stats of current waste/usage stats alone

does knowing the risk help, or cause added worry

Treating high prices as reasons not to do a thing.. Though it wasn't the only reason; I have no idea of the impact of desal plants on marine life/ecosystem.

Check back on his blog in a year

Had read many of the ideas before, but the hourglass diagram was a fantastic visualisation of it. Recommends The Precipice.

Biggest risks to continued survival: nuclear war, pandemic, and evil AI.

Alex T on the need for innovation in America

The review alone was very well written, quite excited for the book

Some good bits around how using past information can backfire. Either overfitting if looking too far back, or spending too much effort on predictions.

Enough effort goes into an initial forecast that updating your views when new information becomes available can trigger the sunk-cost fallacy and cause you to be right or wrong for the wrong reason.

donoteat01's hyperloop take still has me very skeptical on tunnels as a viable transport alternative.

Ambitious thing to estimate - I don't even try to predict a week ahead!

Some things to get excited about:

• mRNA tech
• geothermal power
• in-orbit manufacturing of things that cannot exist on Earth(!)

I think this also. We have the means to solve so many pressing problems but choose not to do so.

We possess the resources and production necessary to provide every human being on Earth with a comfortable living: adequate food, housing, health, and happiness. We have decided not to do so. We have achieved what one may consider the single unifying goal of the entire history of humanity: we have eliminated natural scarcity for our basic resources. We have done this, and we choose to deny our fellow humans their basic needs, in the cruel pursuit of profit. We have more empty homes than we have homeless people. America alone throws away enough food to feed the entire world population. And we choose to let our peers die of hunger and exposure.

I would like to learn about chip foundries. No idea how that stuff gets made.