Best of Twitter - Week of November 1, 2021
in my experience, an important step to reduce one’s fear of looking stupid is to decide resolutely to never mock anybody else for the same. I think I made this decision when I was about 25 and it took a few years to work through me before the tension melted from my body
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1) Monday night was a night I’ll never forget. I’m still speechless. I got to take the first ride, by anyone, ever, in a *driverless* robotaxi on the streets of San Francisco.
This was officially ride #1 for @Cruise. Full story and vids below.
What are some compelling examples of new things we could do with energy abundance—say, 10x (or more) energy usage per capita?
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This red dot is the extent of all human radio signals and spacecraft throughout history.
Which means, any possible civilization outside this circle could be totally unaware of our existence 👀
Wow
Joe Lonsdale
Steven Pinker
Bari Weiss
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Niall Ferguson
Tyler Cowen
First university I’m bullish on https://t.co/db60STdwi4
Joe Lonsdale @JTLonsdale
Interesting blog post about how SpaceX’s cheap reusable rockets could totally upend the economics of space: caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2021/10/28/sta…
Always fun to read an authoritative-seeming but accessible take on something I don’t know anything about!
South Koreans keep having fewer and fewer babies every year.
Average daily births per month since 2000.
[Also, more deaths than births; and, more births in North Korea (which has half the population) for the first time ever; TFR 0.8]
Headed for the endangered species list?