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🎄Christmas: an Up Wing 'festival of optimism' • Actually, lots of pro-progress moments and milestones happened throughout 2025
🎄Christmas: an Up Wing 'festival of optimism'
Actually, lots of pro-progress moments and milestones happened throughout 2025
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December 23, 2025 at 4:23 PM
🎄Christmas: an Up Wing 'festival of optimism' • Actually, lots of pro-progress moments and milestones happened throughout 2025
🚀 FP! Week In Review, Briefly #16 • Also: Key Up Wing and Down Wing news from the week that was
🚀 FP! Week In Review, Briefly #16
Also: Key Up Wing and Down Wing news from the week that was
fasterplease.substack.com
December 20, 2025 at 1:20 PM
🚀 FP! Week In Review, Briefly #16 • Also: Key Up Wing and Down Wing news from the week that was
🌻 Climate politics hits the limits of 'no' • Clean energy progress is still being undermined by an anti-growth movement stuck in veto mode. Maybe it's time to build, instead
🌻 Climate politics hits the limits of 'no'
Clean energy progress is still being undermined by an anti-growth movement stuck in veto mode. Maybe it's time to build, instead
fasterplease.substack.com
December 19, 2025 at 10:21 PM
🌻 Climate politics hits the limits of 'no' • Clean energy progress is still being undermined by an anti-growth movement stuck in veto mode. Maybe it's time to build, instead
🧬✨ An AI-genetics revolution — and arms race: A Quick Q&A with Bill Drexel • 'There is a very clear, AI-propelled trajectory to genetic engineering capabilities with vast moral implications that is getting very little air time.'
🧬✨ An AI-genetics revolution — and arms race: A Quick Q&A with Bill Drexel
'There is a very clear, AI-propelled trajectory to genetic engineering capabilities with vast moral implications that is getting very little air time.'
fasterplease.substack.com
December 18, 2025 at 7:22 PM
🧬✨ An AI-genetics revolution — and arms race: A Quick Q&A with Bill Drexel • 'There is a very clear, AI-propelled trajectory to genetic engineering capabilities with vast moral implications that is getting very little air time.'
✨ Two cheers for the 'San Francisco Consensus' on AI • The case for hoping AI breaks history, while planning as if it won’t
✨ Two cheers for the 'San Francisco Consensus' on AI
The case for hoping AI breaks history, while planning as if it won’t
fasterplease.substack.com
December 17, 2025 at 10:22 PM
✨ Two cheers for the 'San Francisco Consensus' on AI • The case for hoping AI breaks history, while planning as if it won’t
🚀 After we get to Mars, then what? • Looking for life is first, everything else second
🚀 After we get to Mars, then what?
Looking for life is first, everything else second
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December 16, 2025 at 10:22 PM
🚀 After we get to Mars, then what? • Looking for life is first, everything else second
⚡ Tracking a 200-year energy wager • Famous futurist Herman Kahn bet that cheap, inexhaustible energy would unlock human abundance. The tools have arrived. The politics still have not
⚡ Tracking a 200-year energy wager
Famous futurist Herman Kahn bet that cheap, inexhaustible energy would unlock human abundance. The tools have arrived. The politics still have not
fasterplease.substack.com
December 16, 2025 at 1:22 AM
⚡ Tracking a 200-year energy wager • Famous futurist Herman Kahn bet that cheap, inexhaustible energy would unlock human abundance. The tools have arrived. The politics still have not
🛑🚼 The end of (demographic) history • The fertility transition is over. The future is not
🛑🚼 The end of (demographic) history
The fertility transition is over. The future is not
fasterplease.substack.com
December 15, 2025 at 1:23 AM
🛑🚼 The end of (demographic) history • The fertility transition is over. The future is not
🚀 FP! Week In Review, Briefly #15 • Also: Key Up Wing and Down Wing news from the week that was
🚀 FP! Week In Review, Briefly #15
Also: Key Up Wing and Down Wing news from the week that was
fasterplease.substack.com
December 13, 2025 at 4:21 PM
🚀 FP! Week In Review, Briefly #15 • Also: Key Up Wing and Down Wing news from the week that was
💰🧪 Funding outside the box: A Quick Q&A with … philanthropy expert Stuart Buck • 'Breakthroughs are by definition a break with the status quo'
💰🧪 Funding outside the box: A Quick Q&A with … philanthropy expert Stuart Buck
'Breakthroughs are by definition a break with the status quo'
fasterplease.substack.com
December 11, 2025 at 7:24 PM
💰🧪 Funding outside the box: A Quick Q&A with … philanthropy expert Stuart Buck • 'Breakthroughs are by definition a break with the status quo'
😀😱 Of 'Pluribus' and progress • Vince Gilligan's new sci-fi show asks an unsettling question: What happens when a civilization optimizes for peace over possibility — and smooths creativity and innovation out of existence?
😀😱 Of 'Pluribus' and progress
Vince Gilligan's new sci-fi show asks an unsettling question: What happens when a civilization optimizes for peace over possibility — and smooths creativity and innovation out of existence?
fasterplease.substack.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:22 AM
😀😱 Of 'Pluribus' and progress • Vince Gilligan's new sci-fi show asks an unsettling question: What happens when a civilization optimizes for peace over possibility — and smooths creativity and innovation out of existence?
🤖👴 AI vs. Age: The Great Offset • The future of economic growth may hinge on whether AI can merely hold the line against aging societies — or achieve something more
🤖👴 AI vs. Age: The Great Offset
The future of economic growth may hinge on whether AI can merely hold the line against aging societies — or achieve something more
fasterplease.substack.com
December 9, 2025 at 1:24 AM
🤖👴 AI vs. Age: The Great Offset • The future of economic growth may hinge on whether AI can merely hold the line against aging societies — or achieve something more
⚔️☠️ The billionaire war against death • What happens to the rest of us when the rich stop planning to die?
⚔️☠️ The billionaire war against death
What happens to the rest of us when the rich stop planning to die?
fasterplease.substack.com
December 8, 2025 at 1:24 AM
⚔️☠️ The billionaire war against death • What happens to the rest of us when the rich stop planning to die?
🚀 FP! Week In Review, Briefly #14 • Also: Key Up Wing and Down Wing news from the week that was
🚀 FP! Week In Review, Briefly #14
Also: Key Up Wing and Down Wing news from the week that was
fasterplease.substack.com
December 6, 2025 at 4:23 PM
🚀 FP! Week In Review, Briefly #14 • Also: Key Up Wing and Down Wing news from the week that was
🪐 NASA and beyond: My chat with space policy analyst Casey Dreier • Faster, Please! — The Podcast #89
🪐 NASA and beyond: My chat with space policy analyst Casey Dreier
Faster, Please! — The Podcast #89
fasterplease.substack.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:23 PM
🪐 NASA and beyond: My chat with space policy analyst Casey Dreier • Faster, Please! — The Podcast #89
⤴️ Singularity 1.0: The birth of modernity • Centuries before the Industrial Revolution roared to life, a cultural commitment to progress may have soft launched an economic transformation. There's a lesson there
⤴️ Singularity 1.0: The birth of modernity
Centuries before the Industrial Revolution roared to life, a cultural commitment to progress may have soft launched an economic transformation. There's a lesson there
fasterplease.substack.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:26 AM
⤴️ Singularity 1.0: The birth of modernity • Centuries before the Industrial Revolution roared to life, a cultural commitment to progress may have soft launched an economic transformation. There's a lesson there
✨🧠 Teaching students to think, not just scroll, in the Age of AI • Schools botched the smartphone era. They can’t afford to repeat those mistakes with artificial intelligence
✨🧠 Teaching students to think, not just scroll, in the Age of AI
Schools botched the smartphone era. They can’t afford to repeat those mistakes with artificial intelligence
fasterplease.substack.com
December 2, 2025 at 10:25 PM
✨🧠 Teaching students to think, not just scroll, in the Age of AI • Schools botched the smartphone era. They can’t afford to repeat those mistakes with artificial intelligence
✨🗽 My Q&A with Francis Fukuyama on AI and liberal democracy. Some sci-fi, too! • A Flashback Friday conversation
✨🗽 My Q&A with Francis Fukuyama on AI and liberal democracy. Some sci-fi, too!
A Flashback Friday conversation
fasterplease.substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:26 PM
✨🗽 My Q&A with Francis Fukuyama on AI and liberal democracy. Some sci-fi, too! • A Flashback Friday conversation
🦅 Why the US outgrows Europe, unfortunately • Take no joy in this, my friends. America’s tech + productivity edge keeps widening, but a faltering Europe leaves Washington without the strong partner it needs in a world increasingly shaped by China
🦅 Why the US outgrows Europe, unfortunately
Take no joy in this, my friends. America’s tech + productivity edge keeps widening, but a faltering Europe leaves Washington without the strong partner it needs in a world increasingly shaped by China
fasterplease.substack.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:24 PM
🦅 Why the US outgrows Europe, unfortunately • Take no joy in this, my friends. America’s tech + productivity edge keeps widening, but a faltering Europe leaves Washington without the strong partner it needs in a world increasingly shaped by China
🔃 How bad policy can offset the AI boom • America is accelerating on AI while slamming the brakes on trade — not a great combo
🔃 How bad policy can offset the AI boom
America is accelerating on AI while slamming the brakes on trade — not a great combo
fasterplease.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:23 AM
🔃 How bad policy can offset the AI boom • America is accelerating on AI while slamming the brakes on trade — not a great combo
🚀 FP! Week In Review, Briefly #13 • Also: key Up Wing and Down Wing news from the week that was
🚀 FP! Week In Review, Briefly #13
Also: key Up Wing and Down Wing news from the week that was
fasterplease.substack.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:28 PM
🚀 FP! Week In Review, Briefly #13 • Also: key Up Wing and Down Wing news from the week that was
🧠🌐 The Brilliance Dividend • Why America needs more high IQ workers —even if they come from abroad
🧠🌐 The Brilliance Dividend
Why America needs more high IQ workers —even if they come from abroad
fasterplease.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:27 PM
🧠🌐 The Brilliance Dividend • Why America needs more high IQ workers —even if they come from abroad
✨🔬 Acceleration though AI-automated R&D: My chat (+transcript) with economist Tom Davidson • Faster, Please! — The Podcast #88
✨🔬 Acceleration though AI-automated R&D: My chat (+transcript) with economist Tom Davidson
Faster, Please! — The Podcast #88
fasterplease.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:33 AM
✨🔬 Acceleration though AI-automated R&D: My chat (+transcript) with economist Tom Davidson • Faster, Please! — The Podcast #88
☀️ A California dream that should come true • Neom, Saudi Arabia’s sci-fi megacity, shows what happens when visions outstrip reality. California Forever shows what’s possible when they don’t — if the state's degrowth politics don’t smother it
☀️ A California dream that should come true
Neom, Saudi Arabia’s sci-fi megacity, shows what happens when visions outstrip reality. California Forever shows what’s possible when they don’t — if the state's degrowth politics don’t smother it
fasterplease.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:30 AM
☀️ A California dream that should come true • Neom, Saudi Arabia’s sci-fi megacity, shows what happens when visions outstrip reality. California Forever shows what’s possible when they don’t — if the state's degrowth politics don’t smother it
✨😨 How AI anxiety threatens a new age of progress • America shows renewed Up wing openness on immigration, trade, and nuclear power — but Down Wing anxiety over artificial intelligence risks is dangerously high
✨😨 How AI anxiety threatens a new age of progress
America shows renewed Up wing openness on immigration, trade, and nuclear power — but Down Wing anxiety over artificial intelligence risks is dangerously high
fasterplease.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:30 AM
✨😨 How AI anxiety threatens a new age of progress • America shows renewed Up wing openness on immigration, trade, and nuclear power — but Down Wing anxiety over artificial intelligence risks is dangerously high