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💡 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.
🚢 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.
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🌊 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.
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🛢️ 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.
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👮 U.S. murder rate drops. 🌍 Successful trials of new meningitis vaccine in Africa. 🏭 Global climate emissions no longer on worst-case trajectory. 🍦 Sweet! Eat ice cream made from air.
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🧠 Paralysed man walks again. 🚗 New test: 81 miles increased range for electric cars. 🧭 New study: Morality not in decline. 🦾 Marc Andreessen in strong comeback against AI doomers (summarized).
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🎗️ Breast cancer is detected by AI + doctors. 🔋 Homevolt: Big investment in home batteries from Tibber. 📚 Kevin Kelly: Focus on the biggest opportunities, not the biggest problems.
💡 Musings of The Angry Optimist: FINALLY some pushback against AI doomerism
Several heavyweights who disagree with the AI pessimists have made no effort to really push back on the doomsday rhetoric. But now Marc Andreessen finally does!
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🚗 An electric car is the world's best-selling car. 😮 Tegmark's astonishing response. 🚰 Wayout to build 30 water systems in the Maldives - offering clean water to thousands. 🛫 Electric airplanes are impos... oh wait: New battery with high energy density