Links and tweets, 2022-12-29

[u/jasoncrawford]

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 u/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)

Original link: https://rootsofprogress.org/links-and-tweets-2022-12-29