Archive - Faster, Please!

✨🎄 Some AGI optimism: an early Xmas present

The age of artificial general intelligence now looks a bit closer to happening with OpenAI o3

Dec 23 •

James Pethokoukis

⤴⤵ Up Wing/Down Wing #29

A curated selection of pro-progress and anti-progress news items from the week that was

Dec 21 •

James Pethokoukis

🚀 What did they take from us, exactly?

A whole lot more than flying cars

Dec 20 •

James Pethokoukis

🌐 My chat (+transcript) with chaos theorist Doyne Farmer on our interconnected economy

Faster, Please! — The Podcast #66

Dec 19 •

James Pethokoukis

26:39

🌌 Why 'Interstellar' is an Up Wing masterpiece

'Our greatest accomplishments cannot be behind us because our destiny lies above us'

Dec 19 •

James Pethokoukis

🚫 AI, job licensing, and upward mobility: A Quick Q&A with … economist Vincent Geloso

'This is the story of bad policies. The crisis that some people perceive in income mobility in the United States is entirely a regulatory crisis that…

Dec 17 •

James Pethokoukis

⏩💳 How faster growth can offset America's debt problem. Really.

Well, that in addition to making us all a lot richer

Dec 16 •

James Pethokoukis

⤴⤵ Up Wing/Down Wing #28

A curated selection of pro-progress and anti-progress news items from the week that was

Dec 14 •

James Pethokoukis

🎨 My chat (+transcript) with innovation expert Duncan Wardle on practical tips for corporate creativity

Faster, Please! — The Podcast #65

Dec 13 •

James Pethokoukis

26:58

🤖🚘 Even as GM retreats, self-driving cars continue to advance

The technology’s uneven progress is a lesson for AI super-optimists

Dec 12 •

James Pethokoukis

🗽🧠 Pro-immigration policy and mutual brain gain: A Quick Q&A with … economist Gaurav Khanna

'The average worker in each country is better off because of immigration.'

Dec 11 •

James Pethokoukis

⤴✊ The techno-optimism of a 1970s Black Power activist and poet

The late Nikki Giovanni displayed an Up Wing attitude sorely lacking among today's social justice warriors

Dec 10 •

James Pethokoukis

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