💡 Musings of The Angry Optimist: How should one think about Elon Musk?
I discovered Elon Musk ten years ago and became obsessed. This is how my thoughts about him have changed since then.
💡 Warp News #195
🔥 Fewer fires in electric cars. 💉 18 million vaccine doses against malaria in Africa. 🌧️ Solar panels? No, RAIN panels. 🦾 OpenAI aims to solve AI alignment in four years.
🚢 How a box and a truck driver made the world smaller and the global economy bigger
Loading a medium-sized ship with loose cargo cost $5.86 per ton in 1956. If you instead used containers for the cargo, the cost dropped to 16 cents. This breakthrough dramatically changed the world in the second half of the 20th century.
🦾 OpenAI aims to solve AI alignment in four years
OpenAI forms a team to align superintelligent AI with human values. And the company is dedicating 20 percent of OpenAI's computing power to it.
💡 Premium Supporter recap + fact-based optimistic news
🌊 Ocean Cleanup has collected 2500 tons of plastic from the ocean. 👩🔬 US destroys its last chemical weapons. 🌳 Making paper more sustainable with genetically edited wood. ⚡ European climate fund invests in nuclear SMR company.
🔥 Fewer fires in electric cars compared to fossil-fueled cars (in the country with the highest share of electric cars)
"Electric cars rarely catch fire, and much less frequently than gasoline and diesel cars," says Kjetil Solberg from the Norwegian Directorate for Civil Protection (DSB).
💡 Warp News #194
🌊 Ocean Cleanup has collected 2500 tons of plastic from the ocean. 👩🔬 US destroys its last chemical weapons. 🌳 Making paper more sustainable with genetically edited wood. ⚡ European climate fund invests in nuclear SMR company.
💡 Premium Supporter recap + fact-based optimistic news
🛢️ Significant drop in oil spills. 🦟 New repellent thwarts 99% of mosquito bites. 👪 Fewer children experience separation. 🌏 Global inequality is decreasing. 🚀 Future Mars travelers Tina & Tom starts rocket manufacturing.
🌊 Ocean Cleanup has collected 2500 tons of plastic from the ocean
The goal is to collect 90% of all plastic in the oceans. Teenager Boyan Slat started Ocean Cleanup.