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There are many conflicting definitions of accelerationism. The most important line of inquiry asks “who is the true subject of history—human beings, or a larger process?” writes Matt Southey. https://t.co/Q1iHhvzLTh
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A Brief History of Accelerationism https://t.co/qoTM77DYeX Great essay by @southsouthey, a philosophy PhD whose dissertation extends Nick Land's work @Outsideness ... In general, e/acc should be understood as a rebranded form of libertarianism. It has explicit political aims
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There are many conflicting definitions of accelerationism. The most important line of inquiry asks "who is the true subject of history—human beings, or a larger process?"
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There are many conflicting definitions of accelerationism. The most important line of inquiry asks “who is the true subject of history—human beings, or a larger process?” writes Matt Southey. https://t.co/Q1iHhvzLTh
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There are many conflicting definitions of accelerationism. The most important line of inquiry asks "who is the true subject of history—human beings, or a larger process?"
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Lowering the risk of nuclear war is not straightforward. Attempts to decrease risk in one domain often transfer it to another as leaders adjust their strategies, writes Matthew Gentzel. https://t.co/mu7ronERW0
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Lowering the risk of nuclear war is not straightforward. Attempts to decrease risk in one domain often transfer it to another as leaders adjust their strategies.
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We have been conditioned to think that medical capacity is the most important sector to support during a pandemic. This would be a mistake, writes Kevin Esvelt, Ben Mueller, and Vaishnav Sunil. https://t.co/pUMZiVl4Pg
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We have been conditioned to think that medical capacity is the most important sector to support during a pandemic. This would be a mistake.
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Just noticed the scroll animation in the corner of @latecomermag's website while reading @NikoMcCarty's article ( https://t.co/D0ClaReouY) Very cute little easter egg! 🥹
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"The Cell is Not a Computer." I've enjoyed reading @latecomermag since they launched last year. So I was excited to contribute a short piece about biology and the methods that are helping us assemble a "more holistic view" of how cells work. Read:
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New techniques are reimagining how we study living matter, and our models of the cell will have to adjust.
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There are good reasons to care about people in the far future without relying on arbitrary calculations. We are not morally clueless, argues @RYChappell in response to @eschwitz. https://t.co/fub9B4SELS
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There are good reasons to care about people in the far future without relying on arbitrary calculations. We are not morally clueless, argues Richard Yetter Chappell.
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For more, make sure to read the interview where we discuss spatially distributed consciousness, science fiction, and whether we have too many professional philosophers. https://t.co/973mpV0ha1
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Assessing the morality of an action based on its impact in a billion years is futile. Instead we should focus on issues that are closer at hand, argues @eschwitz. https://t.co/Exyps2ZRz4
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Assessing the morality of an action based on its impact in a billion years is futile. Instead we should focus on issues that are closer at hand, argues Eric Schwitzgebel.
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To learn more about the long road to molecular manufacturing, read @allisondman's article "What Happened to Molecular Manufacturing?" https://t.co/f69pAZAqa3
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Currently, one of our best bets for realizing Feynman's dreams of nanotechnology may be a self-assembling molecular 3D printer operating in a solution on molecular building blocks. See Drexler in https://t.co/ALvc4C4I7L and @AdamMarblestone's https://t.co/l42qERzVt2
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In 2016 the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Jean-Pierre Sauvage, James Fraser Stoddart and Bernard L. Feringa “for the design and synthesis of molecular machines” such as motors, elevators, and even a nanocar.
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In 1981, Drexler released "Protein design as a pathway to molecular manufacturing" where he created a chart comparing machine parts with their functional molecular analogues. He argued that the ability to design proteins would lead the way toward molecular machines.
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Less than one year after Richard Feynman gave his famous talk on nanotechnology "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom", William McLellan built a motor at 1/64" cubed. What has happened in the world of nanotechnology since? 🧵
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We need three things to beat climate change according to @CJHandmer: 1. Abundant clean energy (i.e. solar photovoltaics) 2. Enhanced weathering to sequester one teraton of excess atmospheric carbon 3. Stratospheric S02 injections to prevent overheating https://t.co/t0icFrGRjI
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How much is nature worth? Some people think the question is impossible to answer. Others think it's worth $33 trillion per year. @AlexandraBalwit
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“We should save the old-growth forests as a matter of national defense,” asserts the eccentric mycologist Paul Stamets. Delivered in a documentary about the medicinal properties of mushrooms, the...
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My @latecomermag article on molecular manufacturing is out now: https://t.co/nGwCV6TTMB. Feedback welcome. Congrats on the magazine launch!
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"The modal geneticist probably tends to overestimate the amount of pleiotropy in the genome" — @hsu_steve on the most overblown concerns around genetic engineering, and what he's actually worried about. https://t.co/ugT0M88GRF
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Wow, this new 'long termist' magazine The Latecomer looks fantastic both in design, and the articles it's hosting. Very cool! https://t.co/MyANCpz0YC
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