Capitalism needs a logo.
It's a huge miss that Communism has the Hammer & Sickle (which actually goes hard) and Capitalism has nothing.
Let's do better branding for Capitalism!
Max Hodak
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Max Hodak
@maxhodak_
better living through technology
Joined March 2009
- pretty crazy: - container ships burn fuels that emit a lot of sulfur - the sulfur seeds clouds, increasing the reflectivity of earth, cooling it - new climate rules in 2020 limit sulfur emissions by cargo ships - a lack of ship-clouds may explain anomalous heating this yearMassively under-reported science story because there's so much going on right now but...it turns out that we might have figured out what's causing this very scary spike. Quick thread, on how WE'VE BEEN ACCIDENTALLY GEOENGINEERING FOR DECADES...but then we stopped:
- organizing the apartment and found an old sketchbook with some scribbles that evolved into a company logo
- i love europe but everyone's intuitions right now are seriously under-rating the fact that europe doesn't actually make almost anything anymore their modern life is completely dependent on other powers, and this is eventually going to cause real problemsNice work! Explains why Europe has zero tech industry and so much of its best talent decides they have a brighter future in America.
- the cost of software is going to go to zero
- There is no such thing as work-life balance. There is only your life. Spend it on things you care about and find meaningful.
- Very excited that the clinical trial results for our PRIMA retinal prosthesis are published today in the New England Journal of Medicine! This is the first time that patients who are blind due to photoreceptor loss have been able to intuitively see again.
- Apple's new end-user handset scanning is likely the most powerful tool for surveillance authoritarianism ever conceived by humans. The most we can do for our children is to not go down this road.
- ✨Some personal news:✨ I am no longer at Neuralink (as of a few weeks ago). I learned a ton there and remain a huge cheerleader for the company! Onward to new things.
- we could probably build jurassic park if we wanted to. wouldn’t be genetically authentic dinosaurs but 🤷♂️. maybe 15 years of breeding + engineering to get super exotic novel species
- The idea of AI “alignment” is fundamentally misguided. The root issue is that the universe is intrinsically competitive. Alignment - to what? The idea presupposes an absolute reference which does not exist.
- I had an idea in college which I've long thought could be, in many ways, the ultimate BCI technology. What if instead of using electrodes, we used biological neurons embedded in electronics to communicate with the brain? Enter biohybrid neural interfaces:
- this is a jobs program, not a jet program. if you thought spacex's cost improvements were impressive, just wait until anduril and friends get into the big toys.
