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Weekly Dose of Optimism #189
Superhot Geothermal, Panthalassa, Vital Lyfe, Mind-Reading Hat, Lucid Dreams, Sonogenetics + Science Breakthroughs + Friedberg
Apr 17
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Excel Never Dies
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Weekly Dose of Optimism #188
AI vs. Alzheimer's, Substrate x GDM, Robot Lamp, Artemis II, Primer + Extra Doses
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Weekly Dose of Optimism #187
Artemis, TBPN, Gemma 4, Solar, Somos + Science Breakthroughs + Extra Doses
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Bad Analogies
Not Every Money-Burning Company is Amazon
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Weekly Dose of Optimism #186
NASA Goes Nuclear, Terraform, Arbor Turbines, Flu Vaccine, Chicken Egg Drugs + Science Breakthroughs + Extra Doses
Mar 27
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Electromagnetism Secretly Runs the World
A Co-Written Essay with Arena Physica CEO Pratap Ranade
Mar 24
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Weekly Dose of Optimism #185
Kalanick, Bezos, Copper One, Cancer Drugs, Shinzen + Scientific Breakthroughs + My Favorite Essay of the Week
Mar 20
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World Models: Computing the Uncomputable
A Co-Written Essay with General Intuition's Pim DeWitte
Mar 19
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Weekly Dose of Optimism #184
Solar and Brains' Big Week, Zero Point Energy, Replit Agent 4 + Funding News + Nietzsche
Mar 13
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Electromagnetism Secretly Runs the World
A Co-Written Essay with Arena Physica CEO Pratap Ranade
Mar 24
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World Models: Computing the Uncomputable
A Co-Written Essay with General Intuition's Pim DeWitte
Mar 19
348
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Raising a Special Little AI
The actual lesson from Clawdbot/Moltbook
Feb 3
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The Venezuela Opportunity
A Co-Written Essay with Ross Garlick
Jan 22
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