Anti-Apocalyptus

Writes The Anti-Apocalyptus newsletter: five links every week about issues like existential risk, public health and great power war. Reformed luxury communist

[Anti-Apocalyptus @AutomatedFully]

I make a newsletter about challenges that could destroy or derail humanity

Each week I give you five links for the biggest issues facing humanity today, from a carbon neutral China to an AI hardware lottery

Read it here 👇

https://t.co/eEcjIMOH7y

[Anti-Apocalyptus @AutomatedFully]

@AntonJaegermm In terms of business memoirs Shoe Dog isn't half bad

It's quite stunning how much early Nike relied on Japanese industrial policy and export subsidies

[Anti-Apocalyptus @AutomatedFully]

@TylerAlterman Ancient Roman and Greek themes still heavily feature in Western art, take for example:

https://t.co/63pBK0FBe2

https://t.co/CvE22pqqKE

https://t.co/sUVsXRQSkR

Etc..

[Anti-Apocalyptus @AutomatedFully]

@robertwiblin So basically recreate Gawker?

If you're just talking about journalism about journalism, there's some interesting outlets for that like @NiemanReports

[Max Roser @MaxCRoser]

COVAX – the international institution for the collective funding and purchasing of COVID vaccines – is surely one of the world’s most important institutions right now.

But it receives so little attention that it doesn’t even have an English @Wikipedia page.

[Anti-Apocalyptus @AutomatedFully]

@mr_scientism Did you ever read The People's Republic of Walmart?

https://t.co/1o8Q0HzvEg

[Anti-Apocalyptus @AutomatedFully]

I write a weekly newsletter with five links in it about threats that can derail us as a society

In this edition you'll find stories about vaccine politics, Biden's early climate and China actions and why Utopia will be weirder than we think

https://t.co/GjnbOg3t0f

[Anti-Apocalyptus @AutomatedFully]

I'm sympathic to some sub-arguments she makes here, but the thread is just a mess with some really weird comparisons

As if a cure for cancer or running water is suddenly evil when it's built under capitalism. Leftists can do much better imo

[Karen Hao @_KarenHao]

I see this argument all the time from tech people: Building gargantuan AI models may be computationally, environmentally, and financially costly. But if those models then go on to solve cancer, isn't that on balance better for the world?

NOOOO.

A thread.

[csz @cszabla]

“no, mr. bond, I expect you to die”

[Anti-Apocalyptus @AutomatedFully]

I write a newsletter about the biggest challenges of our time: the ones that could kill a lot of us

The latest issue discusses Biden's China and nuclear policies, superforecasting Covid, soil erosion and climate statistics

Make sure to read it

https://t.co/1llBxU3p3t

[Anders Sandberg @anderssandberg]

@TylerAlterman @SamoBurja I think the High Stakes Worldview is the right take: standard futures assume a future roughly like the present + trends, while the HSW thinks there are heavy positive and negative tails: more probability and more extreme extreme events. The future is likely to be *different*.

[Anti-Apocalyptus @AutomatedFully]

As 2020 nears its end, I just published my interview with @Clarissajaz from @CSERCambridge

We talk about science policy advice, the pandemic and why politicians fail to take action against global risks (and how we can change this)

Read it here:

https://t.co/z3t5TI0JMU

[Anti-Apocalyptus @AutomatedFully]

Or as Braudel said after being captured by the Germans:

“we were the lost France, like the dust that the wind whips up from a heap of sand. The true France, the France in reserve, deep France was behind us, she would survive, she did survive.”

https://t.co/MLWgJUZTtC

[Richard Fisher @rifish]

We can't travel geographically right now, but it is possible to travel *temporally*. Seek out the examples of deep time in your local area https://t.co/D59sFsje7G

[Thomas Moynihan @nemocentric]

Article I wrote for Vice exploring a bit of the history of Dyson spheres, astroengineering, and directed panspermia - alongside current ideas and insights on the prospects of 'space gardening' from the brilliant @anderssandberg.

https://t.co/mmapTclWD1

#cosmism #dysontrees

[Cosmic Penguin @Cosmic_Penguin]

There's now a full fabric PRC flag planted on the surface of the Moon after it was deployed from one side of Chang'e 5's descent stage just before ascent stage's launch.

Whatever your opinions on the PRC are, this photo definitely has significant meanings in spaceflight history.

[Katelyn Burns @transscribe]

How it started Where it’s going

[Anti-Apocalyptus @AutomatedFully]

@jberman81 From the top of my head:

- germ theory of disease
- slavery/slave trade
- nuclear war policy
- iodine salt to counter goiter (see source)

https://t.co/XWShRhKZlb

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

When living through a public health disaster, it is worth remembering successes. Here’s a big one: Dr. Crowlie, a doc from Michigan, convinced Morton Salt to add iodine to salt in 1924. Due to this move, average IQ went up 15 points across much of the US! Income went up by 11%!

[Usha Sahay @ushasahay]

Episode 3 of “A Most Terrible Weapon” is out today from @WarOnTheRocks! This episode looks at the temptations (and complications) of limited nuclear conflict, the effort to streamline America’s tangled nuclear targeting plans, and more. https://t.co/c992AbOFsg

[Anders Sandberg @anderssandberg]

@JimDMiller Yes, we need to plan for decision-makers of diverse competence - strategies that work even when there are obstructive idiots are great strategies.

[Anti-Apocalyptus @AutomatedFully]

@mr_scientism The advantage of a plan rational over a market rational society is that lawyers are less important