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7 talks from ARC 2025 have now hit over 1 million views on YouTube — in this thread we’re going to be diving into the highlights. Check out these standout moments from each speaker, and see why they’ve made such an impact 👇🧵.
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David Stroud contributed a chapter for ARC Research’s book: The Best of Our Inheritance, called . The Power of Networks: A Legacy of Renewal. His thesis: Real transformation doesn't come from institutions or individuals—it comes from relational networks of leaders. Get your.
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History is filled with small groups of people who have had a disproportionate impact. The Clapham Sect ended slavery. Victorian High Minds transformed a nation in crisis. The Inklings influenced literature for generations. What did they all share? They weren't institutions or
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"Your societies are fading away, and that's mathematical" @elonmusk . @StephenJShaw presented the shocking numbers behind the population crisis at ARC 2025
Overpopulation is the most nihilistic lie ever told.
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(4/4) Why does this matter right now?. While we've been regulating ourselves into stagnation, the conditions that created the modern world are disappearing. We've proven human innovation can solve almost any problem. Extreme poverty, disease, material scarcity—all dramatically.
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(3/4) Ridley's thesis: Innovation flourishes in very specific conditions. Destroy them, and progress dies. Throughout history, innovation has exploded in just a few places and times:. - Classical Greece & Ashokan India (2,000+ years ago).- Abbasid Arabia & Song China (~1,000.
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(2/4) Matt Ridley is a British science writer, journalist and businessman, and a former member of The House Of Lords. He is one of fifteen contributors to ARC Research’s first book, ‘The Best Of Our Inheritance’, a collection of essays exploring the roots and renewal of Western.
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Extreme poverty has reduced from 50% to 10% of the world’s population in the last 70 years. The driver? Human innovation. But @MattWRidley warns we're killing the conditions that made this miracle possible. 🧵(1/4)
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Why this matters right now:. If we keep deconstructing humanity into interchangeable parts, we'll have no basis for understanding where humans end and machines begin. We're about to face AI that can mimic human thought. We better know what authentic human thought actually is.
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Harrington's thesis:. Identity is a 20th-century invention that has left us empty, confused, and totally unprepared for AI. The real essence of humanity? The soul—something far richer and more ancient. Harrington traces how we've redefined ourselves with each technological.
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In Mary Harrington's new paper for ARC Research: . Soul Trader: Identity in a Digital Age. she asks the question: what if the concept of "identity" itself is the problem?. Read the full paper 👇.
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"If we are to master our machines, rather than be mastered by them, we must recognise 'identity' for what it is—the dead byproduct of applying our technologies to ourselves.". People say technology is driving identity politics and that AI is giving humanity an identity crisis.
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Barry Strauss is a contributor to 'The Best of Our Inheritance', ARC Research’s first book. His chapter explores:. Our Classical Inheritance: A Legacy of Virtue, Ideas, and the Arts. You can read his full chapter — and 14 others from leading thinkers and public intellectuals — in.
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"In Athens," said Pericles, "a person who minded his own business rather than participating in public life was not easy-going—he was useless.". We live in an age of armchair commentators but few contributors. An age obsessed with rights and entitlements, forgetting our
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“The Philosopher-Builder—someone who can go from first principles to first prototype, creating new worlds through culture, through code, through their commitments to human flourishing.”.
Every builder's first duty is philosophical: to decide what they should build for. AI is beginning to decide what ideas reach your mind—your next action, your next job, your next relationship. It will tempt you to outsource your thinking in ways you’ve never been tempted before.
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Every technology revolution presents a choice: build for freedom or watch as others build for control. Three forces make the next five years decisive:. First, we face the largest infrastructure build in human history. Well over a trillion dollars in AI compute by the early.
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Brendan McCord’s research paper titled ‘AI: Standing at the Crossroads’ was published with the return of the ARC Conference earlier this year. It explores the shortcomings of the two dominant schools of thought surrounding the AI revolution, and the need for a.
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“With the rise of AI, we face a superintelligent kindergarten teacher that takes away the burden of thinking, the responsibility of choosing, and maybe even the pain of living.”. WATCH @mbrendan1 from @cosmos_inst breaks down the fundamental questions that most people are missing
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The research paper highlights a tension:. Energy is one of the keys to human flourishing, and if we are not careful, we will stifle this vital ingredient to the growth and thriving of our societies. Energy is the lifeblood of our economies. It is the unspoken key to lifting our.
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Scott Tinker and Mark Mills authored an ARC Research paper – Energy for the 21st Century: A Declaration of Guiding Principles – which explores the importance of affordable, reliable and abundant energy and lays a framework for how we should think about energy in today's world.
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"Energy will not end poverty, but we cannot end poverty without energy."
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