Derek Thompson

a partial medicine for Alzheimer's disease. The ability of science to connect these dots in the cosmos just absolutely thrills and fascinates me. And I hope that we get better at making those connections.

a partial medicine for Alzheimer's disease. The ability of science to connect these dots in the cosmos just absolutely thrills and fascinates me. And I hope that we get better at making those connections.

a partial medicine for Alzheimer's disease. The ability of science to connect these dots in the cosmos just absolutely thrills and fascinates me. And I hope that we get better at making those connections.

And while I have a lot of fears about AI, many of them shared by Ezra, I am really interested in the possibility of AI being useful for synthesizing large bodies of knowledge to allow people to make cross-domain comparisons. I think a lot of inventions in tech history are essentially ingenious recombinations of ideas.

And while I have a lot of fears about AI, many of them shared by Ezra, I am really interested in the possibility of AI being useful for synthesizing large bodies of knowledge to allow people to make cross-domain comparisons. I think a lot of inventions in tech history are essentially ingenious recombinations of ideas.

And while I have a lot of fears about AI, many of them shared by Ezra, I am really interested in the possibility of AI being useful for synthesizing large bodies of knowledge to allow people to make cross-domain comparisons. I think a lot of inventions in tech history are essentially ingenious recombinations of ideas.

To a certain extent, you look at something as fundamental or archetypal as Thomas Edison inventing the incandescent light bulb. What did he do? He just tested 10,000 different materials and figured out that actually it was like a very special kind of bamboo that burned for the right amount of time and said, boom, I did it. I made the incandescent light bulb. The ability to have a machine...

To a certain extent, you look at something as fundamental or archetypal as Thomas Edison inventing the incandescent light bulb. What did he do? He just tested 10,000 different materials and figured out that actually it was like a very special kind of bamboo that burned for the right amount of time and said, boom, I did it. I made the incandescent light bulb. The ability to have a machine...

To a certain extent, you look at something as fundamental or archetypal as Thomas Edison inventing the incandescent light bulb. What did he do? He just tested 10,000 different materials and figured out that actually it was like a very special kind of bamboo that burned for the right amount of time and said, boom, I did it. I made the incandescent light bulb. The ability to have a machine...

or accelerate the degree to which we understand what those 10,000 materials can do, or synthesize knowledge so people can combine it and say, we're going to take a little bit of CRISPR over here and a little bit of cancer science over here to develop a gene therapy that targets a particular inhibitor that allows the immune system to attack a protein that is explicitly related to pancreatic cancer.

or accelerate the degree to which we understand what those 10,000 materials can do, or synthesize knowledge so people can combine it and say, we're going to take a little bit of CRISPR over here and a little bit of cancer science over here to develop a gene therapy that targets a particular inhibitor that allows the immune system to attack a protein that is explicitly related to pancreatic cancer.

or accelerate the degree to which we understand what those 10,000 materials can do, or synthesize knowledge so people can combine it and say, we're going to take a little bit of CRISPR over here and a little bit of cancer science over here to develop a gene therapy that targets a particular inhibitor that allows the immune system to attack a protein that is explicitly related to pancreatic cancer.

I do absolutely believe that that we might be on the doorstep of those kind of breakthroughs. And that makes me incredibly optimistic because I think at base, it's like, you know, what's life about, right? What's abundance about? Why housing and energy? Well, because we think they're fundamental to living a good life.

I do absolutely believe that that we might be on the doorstep of those kind of breakthroughs. And that makes me incredibly optimistic because I think at base, it's like, you know, what's life about, right? What's abundance about? Why housing and energy? Well, because we think they're fundamental to living a good life.

I do absolutely believe that that we might be on the doorstep of those kind of breakthroughs. And that makes me incredibly optimistic because I think at base, it's like, you know, what's life about, right? What's abundance about? Why housing and energy? Well, because we think they're fundamental to living a good life.

You need a place to live and people deserve the freedom to live where they want to live. Energy is what powers the entire economy. And more energy would power technologies that we can't even imagine or just be getting to, whether it's supersonic flight powered by clean fuel or fusion technology that basically gives us infinite solar energy, the sun's actual energy in a particular location.

You need a place to live and people deserve the freedom to live where they want to live. Energy is what powers the entire economy. And more energy would power technologies that we can't even imagine or just be getting to, whether it's supersonic flight powered by clean fuel or fusion technology that basically gives us infinite solar energy, the sun's actual energy in a particular location.

You need a place to live and people deserve the freedom to live where they want to live. Energy is what powers the entire economy. And more energy would power technologies that we can't even imagine or just be getting to, whether it's supersonic flight powered by clean fuel or fusion technology that basically gives us infinite solar energy, the sun's actual energy in a particular location.

I mean, these are beautiful things that can happen. But also, I think the good life is about health. It's about health and it's about the wealth that comes and the freedom that comes from finding health in your own life.

I mean, these are beautiful things that can happen. But also, I think the good life is about health. It's about health and it's about the wealth that comes and the freedom that comes from finding health in your own life.