Jeff Stine
@thelonghorizon.bsky.social
Reposted by Jeff Stine
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Applications for the 2026 cohort of the Brains Research Accelerator are now open!
If you have a deep technical background and an ambitious research idea that's beyond the scope of a startup or academic lab, you should apply!
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If you have a deep technical background and an ambitious research idea that's beyond the scope of a startup or academic lab, you should apply!
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Speculative Technologies
Speculative Technologies is a nonprofit resarch organization unlocking new materials and manufacturing technologies
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November 12, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Applications close in one week!
If you (or someone you know) has what it takes to run an ambitious research program, we want to hear from you.
If you (or someone you know) has what it takes to run an ambitious research program, we want to hear from you.
Why do youth embrace change while elders resist it? In "Betting on Chaos," I show how financial derivatives reveal who seeks volatility and who fears it. With little to lose and time on your side, chaos becomes rational—with implications beyond markets.
thelonghorizon.substack.com/p/betting-on...
thelonghorizon.substack.com/p/betting-on...
Betting on Chaos
What financial derivatives reveal about our deepest motives.
thelonghorizon.substack.com
March 19, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Why do youth embrace change while elders resist it? In "Betting on Chaos," I show how financial derivatives reveal who seeks volatility and who fears it. With little to lose and time on your side, chaos becomes rational—with implications beyond markets.
thelonghorizon.substack.com/p/betting-on...
thelonghorizon.substack.com/p/betting-on...
What if our intuition about luck is exactly backwards? As science advances, we assume luck's role in success is diminishing. But some simple math suggests something unsettling...
thelonghorizon.substack.com/p/the-mathem...
thelonghorizon.substack.com/p/the-mathem...
The Mathematics of Luck
Why success might be becoming more random, not less.
thelonghorizon.substack.com
March 5, 2025 at 3:16 PM
What if our intuition about luck is exactly backwards? As science advances, we assume luck's role in success is diminishing. But some simple math suggests something unsettling...
thelonghorizon.substack.com/p/the-mathem...
thelonghorizon.substack.com/p/the-mathem...
When technologists promote innovation, are they truly serving humanity's Great Games (ending suffering, expanding knowledge), or just masquerading Lesser Games (power, status, wealth) as greater ones?
New issue of The Long Horizon explores this tension: thelonghorizon.substack.com/p/the-greate...
New issue of The Long Horizon explores this tension: thelonghorizon.substack.com/p/the-greate...
The Greatest of All Games
What is it all for?
thelonghorizon.substack.com
February 12, 2025 at 4:50 PM
When technologists promote innovation, are they truly serving humanity's Great Games (ending suffering, expanding knowledge), or just masquerading Lesser Games (power, status, wealth) as greater ones?
New issue of The Long Horizon explores this tension: thelonghorizon.substack.com/p/the-greate...
New issue of The Long Horizon explores this tension: thelonghorizon.substack.com/p/the-greate...
Cutting investment into science is akin to deciding to stop planting seeds in a garden because you need to save money on water. You might solve today's problem, but you've guaranteed tomorrow's crisis.
#TheLongHorizon
#TheLongHorizon
On Abundance
Strong vs. weak-form abundance, and why the difference matters.
open.substack.com
January 29, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Cutting investment into science is akin to deciding to stop planting seeds in a garden because you need to save money on water. You might solve today's problem, but you've guaranteed tomorrow's crisis.
#TheLongHorizon
#TheLongHorizon