You Should Be Working On Hardware

What are the important skills to transfer to a new multi-planet civilization?Mass farming, mining, electrical engineering, plumbing, manufacturing, supply chain, transportation, and more.  We take for granted our infrastructure, replicating it will be no easy task

Transportation + Urban InfrastructureIs there a way to build better, cleaner cities?Is there a way to build cheaper, affordable and comfortable homes and offices for all?Can we build new transportation methods that enable us to take someone from point A -> B faster?Can we allow people to be productive while they are being transported?Can we find... See more

The multiple cantilevered AI overhangs:

Compute overhang. We have much more compute than we are using. Scale can go much further.

Idea overhang. There are many obvious research ideas and combinations of ideas that haven’t been tried in earnest yet.

Capability overhang. Even if we stopped all research now, it would take ten years to digest the new capa... See more

The world is filled with good quests that require massively leveled heroes to complete: semiconductor manufacturing, complex industrial automation, natural resource discovery, next-generation energy production, low-cost and low-labor construction, new modes of transportation, general artificial intelligence, mapping and interfacing with the br

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