A More Political Science

Houses, a chip factory, anything really in place of Portland’s Hillsboro Airport

From: What We Should Build

Nuclear reactors that won’t melt down

From: What We Should Build

A landscape we have to navigate together

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Chains of geothermal power stations to keep the Yellowstone supervolcano from destroying modern civilization (and get a lot of clean power too)

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Homes where old people and disabled people can help each other out

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Giant nets to clean garbage from the ocean

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Why the Progress Debate Goes Nowhere

You say “jetpacks,” I say “cabin in the woods,” let’s call the whole thing off.

From: What Calls to Build Miss

Ethics Won’t Save Us From AI

Why rationalists can’t answer the doomers or the boomers

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Dinner with Dinosaurs

The right’s new love of technological progress isn’t a good enough answer to the left’s progressive ideology. What are they both missing?

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For Whom Shall We Build?

Marc Andreessen wants us to go faster. But what does that matter if nobody’s left in the car?

From: What Calls to Build Miss