Faster, Please!

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⤴⤵ Up Wing/Down Wing #56
A curated selection of pro-progress and anti-progress news items from the week that was
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✨ GPT-5 is a step forward, not a leap — and that’s OK
Progress is progress, especially if the pace would have been unimaginable just a few years ago
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⏩🎇 Awaiting the AI acceleration: A Quick Q&A with … researchers Anson Ho and Andrei Potlogea
'Conditional on not being very worried about the risks associated with AI, we (as a society) are probably significantly underinvesting in AI.'
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🧬 RFK Jr.’s dumb war on mRNA vaccines and America’s medical future
A terrible decision with perhaps more terrible decisions to come
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✨🎈 If the AI boom goes bust, then what?
Bubbles aren't always a bad thing
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⤴⤵ Up Wing/Down Wing #55
A curated selection of pro-progress and anti-progress news items from the week that was
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⚔ The AI Revolution vs. chaotic US economic policy
An unnecessary battle is being fought
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July 2025

✨ AI and the future of R&D: My chat (+transcript) with McKinsey's Michael Chui
Faster, Please! — The Podcast #80
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23:09
🎇 Mark Zuckerberg's vision of 'personal superintelligence'
The Meta CEO makes the case for powerful AI that enhances rather than replaces humans
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⤴ The welcome Up Wing tech-optimism of 'The Fantastic Four'
Flame on!
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⤴⤵ Up Wing/Down Wing #54
A curated selection of pro-progress and anti-progress news items from the week that was
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James Pethokoukis
📊 The US economy at midyear: My chat (+transcript) with economic analyst Joey Politano
Faster, Please! — The Podcast #79
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