PS Newsletter
💡 Musings of the Angry Optimist: If we'd regulated the internet, as we're regulating AI
President Biden's AI regulation is vague and at the same time EXTREMELY specific. If we had regulated the internet in the same way, it would have seriously hampered our development. Also: We reveal which movie Biden watched that influenced his determination to regulate AI.
💡 Premium Supporter recap + fact-based optimistic news
🧏 Curing deafness in children with gene therapy - trail begins. 💉 13% decline in child deaths thanks to malaria vaccine. 🚁 Electric air taxis to showcase at the Olympics. 💰 Americans are getting wealthier, especially the poor.
💡 Premium Supporter recap + fact-based optimistic news
🌱 Rhubarbs key to recycling electric car batteries ♿ Record high employment and education levels among disabled Americans. 📲 Oxford researchers: Overblown fears about misinformation from AI.
💡 Premium Supporter recap + fact-based optimistic news
🧠 Real-time brain tumor diagnosis during surgery. 🚰 MIT: Desalination freshwater cheaper than tap water. 🌌 Scientists make key discovery about antimatter. 🐔 CRISPR-engineered chickens resistant to flu.
💡 Musings of the Angry Optimist: Dumb money
How 'dumb money' became 'smart money', what you should do to knock down a wall, and what to do if you're inside that wall.
💡 Read The Techno-Optimists Manifesto
We are becoming a serious counterforce. A counterforce against slowing down, stopping, pausing progress and instead accelerating it. A progress movement.
💡 Premium Supporter recap + fact-based optimistic news
🐯 40% more snow leopards. 💉 New malaria vaccine. 🦾 US and Sweden are among top AI beneficiaries. 🚰 Desalination of salt water is getting cheaper.
💡 Premium Supporter recap + fact-based optimistic news
🦏 Rhinos on the rise. 🌡️ Staying within 1.5 degrees is possible, due to record growth for renewables. 🦾 ChatGPT diagnoses as accurately as ER doctors. 🔌 Record global access to electricity.
💡 Musings of the Angry Optimist: No AI pause, but the doomsday rhetoric has taken hold
Doomsday rhetoric has taken hold at the highest level, and risks damaging the future of humanity.