Sitemap - 2025 - Faster, Please!
🚀💥 Time to worry about SpaceX and Starship?
🗽 The legacy and future of liberalism: A Quick Q&A with … economist Deirdre McCloskey
✨ How the AI Boom is like the Internet Boom (and how it isn't)
⤴ America's megaproject imperative
🚀 NASA and the New Space Age: My chat (+transcript) with James Meigs
🎇 Sam Altman's 'gentle singularity' message to an anxious public
📱⏩ Why the Tech Right probably has few regrets about Trump (for now)
✨ Some good news: The latest on AI and business
🚀 How SpaceX is making a space Mayflower voyage possible: Flashback Friday
⏩ Debating 'progress': A Quick Q&A with … Samuel Matlack of New Atlantis
✨⚡ The Up Wing combo of AI and energy
🌑 Did America just lose the Moon?
⤴🎦 An Up Wing film from a Down Wing decade
⚡ Washington and the New Energy Revolution: How's it going?
⚛️ ⚡✨ AI’s Need for Nuclear: A Quick Q&A with … energy writer and historian Emmet Penney
✨ Why even supersmart AI might never take all the jobs
🎇 Cold War lessons for an Age of Superintelligence
💻 Tech-Savvy Tallinn: A Quick Q&A with … technologist Joel Burke on Estonian “E-Government”
⚛⚡ Is there a long German word for regret over rejecting nuclear energy?
🗽🧠 America needs to get more out of its high-IQ kids
✨ 😷 AI and the radiologist apocalypse that wasn't
⚡ AI + energy: A Quick Q&A with … Mark Jamison on permitting reform
🤖 Superintelligence and national security: My chat (+transcript) with AI expert Dan Hendrycks
☀ The continuing case for an American Golden Age
✨ DeepSeek and tariffs fail to undermine the AI investment boom (so far)
🗽 America's immigration edge: My chat (+transcript) with policy expert Alex Nowrasteh
🗽⤵ Why American growth falters despite abundant ideas
✨ Permissionless innovation in the Age of AI
🎇 Yikes! What if AGI isn't possible with LLMs?
🏙🔎 America’s missing megalopolis mystery (Throwback Thursday)
✨☠ We can do better than merely surviving AI 'extinction'
🔬 Federal R&D cuts would be another (massive) unforced policy error
👩🚀🎖 Space tourist Katy Perry, hero of progress
⤴ ⚛ The larger meaning behind the rising popularity of nuclear energy
✨ The state of AI, heading into the America Trade Shock
🌐⚔ Trade wars and rumors of trade wars
✨🏛️ The political economy of AI: A Quick Q&A with … policy analyst Anton Leicht
✨ Civilizational stakes and opportunity costs
🌐 Tariffs are no cure for America's future fiscal solvency
🌦 Golden Age? Welcome to Trump's gloomy Iron Age (for now)
📈 Democrats and abundance: A Quick Q&A with … tech policy expert Adam Kovacevich
✨📉 AI progress amid macroeconomic wreckage
✨🤖 What jobs today are really most AI vulnerable?
⤴ Up Wing politics: A chat with sociologist Steve Fuller (Throwback Thursday)
🧬 MAGA vs. the transhumanists of Silicon Valley
⚛️ Our nuclear problem: A Quick Q&A with … economist Eli Dourado on NRC overreach
✨ A twist on the notion that big ideas are getting harder to find
🚀 Mars or bust! My chat (+transcript) with aerospace engineer Robert Zubrin
✨ The Age of AI: Today? Tomorrow? When?
🌎📈 Humanity's capacity to grow and thrive: A Quick Q&A with … research analyst Ben Landau-Taylor
🧠 Have we really passed Peak Brain Power?
🎇☠ The economics of AI apocalypse
🌅 America's new Golden Age: an update
🚀 My chat (+transcript) with economist Matt Weinzierl on the growing business of space
🎇 What if super AI happens during Trump's presidency?
🤖 Why China might lead the Robot Revolution
👶 Progressive pronatalism: A Quick Q&A with … philosopher Victor Kumar
👶 Lessons on birth rates: Japan and South Korea
✨🎇🎆 Talkin’ bout an AI Revolution: 3 scenarios
🎇📈 A Quick Q&A on predicting super AI through bond markets with … Trevor Chow
🏠 👶 Birth-rate worriers should care about housing deregulation
🌳 🌈 Time for a hard reset for environmental policy: A Quick Q&A with … Emily Domenech
✨🎇 The great AI forecasting divide
⚔️🎇 Why the US military should plan for human-level AI
📜 Granting rights to AI may save humanity: A Quick Q&A with … Simon Goldstein
✨⏩ JD Vance offers an accelerationist AI vision in Paris
☄ What asteroid 2024 YR4 teaches about techno-capitalism and risk
🎇 Stargate isn't enough. Save the NSF
✨ The Age of AI, an update: A Quick Q&A with … economist Michael Strain
🚀 Beyond 'The Jetsons': A new vision of a fantastic future that never was
🏗️ Permitting ourselves to build: A Quick Q&A with … energy policy expert James Coleman
🌐✨ Trade and AI uncertainty are not the same
🌍 My chat (+transcript) with researcher Toby Ord on existential risk
✨⏩ What DeepSeek means for faster AI-driven economic growth
☀ The Doomsday Clock needs a pro-progress switch to the Genesis Clock
✨ DeepSeek drama: The optimistic case for AI spending momentum
✨ Begun, the US vs. China AI race has
✨ DeepSeek, China's new AI challenge
🤖 My chat (+transcript) with journalist Nicole Kobie on why the future of tech still hasn’t arrived
✨⚡ Can we actually build Stargate?
⚛️🌟 Our fusion future: A Quick Q&A with … nuclear engineer Michael Ford
✨☢ A (pricey) Manhattan Project for AI Safety?
⚡ My chat (+transcript) with Virginia Postrel on promoting a culture of dynamism
✨⏩ AI acceleration: the solution to AI risk
🍼 Confronting global population collapse: A Quick Q&A with … demographer Nick Eberstadt
🌞☁️ Pro-growthers are having a moment. But so are degrowthers
⚡️ When Jimmy Carter proposed his own DOGE
💊💉 The future of weight loss drugs: A Quick Q&A with … analyst (and superforecaster) Greg Justice
✨ While tech CEOs talk up AGI imminence, real-world AI use cases emerge