Links and tweets, 2022-12-29
by Jason Crawford · December 29, 2022 · 1 min read
Links
- City size is determined by transportation technology (Tomas Pueyo)
Tweets
- Did any sci-fi predict that when AI arrived, it would be unreliable, often illogical, and frequently bullshitting?
- Sam Altman: in the next decade the marginal cost of intelligence and of energy will trend to zero
- Where to, Mr. Chemist? “To a thousand untouched shores” (Du Pont, 1939)
- Longevity escape velocity
- Study by Philip Tetlock finds “a pervasive tendency… to see things as getting worse than they really are”
- “Scientists may find themselves reporting only successful experiments”
Quotes
- Sustainability is the disease, people are the cure
- For the first 40 years of photography, handheld cameras were impossible
- How communication and transportation networks help eliminate famine
Queries
- Data on European pipeline gas and storage? (@Atomicrod)
Retweets
- “Abundance is the only cure for scarcity… Everything else merely allocates scarcity” (@samhinkie, quoting @patio11)
- Converting coal plants into nuclear with small modular reactors. But: Congress ordered the NRC to provide a pathway for new reactors—and they made the process more burdensome (@AlecStapp)
- Photographer uses AI to generate image variations from his own photos (@jonst0kes)
- If you want home values to go up, you don’t want homes to be affordable (@JerusalemDemsas)
- The bureaucracy feedback loop, green card edition (@nabeelqu)
- How Theodor Engelmann demonstrated that chloroplasts are the site of oxygen production in plants (@strandbergbio)
