Ben Reinhardt

@Ben_Reinhardt

Accelerating Innovation, Intelligence Augmentation, Space, Superpowers. Past: AI , Space Robots + , medieval history

Singapore
Joined November 2013

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    15 Dec 2019

    1. We should strive to live in a world where Elon Musk is unremarkable. “Oh yeah, that guy getting to Mars. He’s cool but I’m a fan of the guy building a tunnel between China and the US”

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  2. The Singaporean Government lets you know that it has your back on twitter during a pandemic

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  3. Feb 1
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  4. Feb 1

    What systems have you used for successful lightweight remote collaborations? Lightweight = not full on remote team but just "hey let's explore this together" 'Just use email with precise language, dummy' is an acceptable answer.

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  5. Jan 30

    end/ There are lots of great pieces I skipped so if this intrigued you - read it! It's (used) on AMZ or on . This is part of my ongoing research into people/orgs that enabled quantum tech leaps. or

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  6. Jan 30

    55/ The book has Biographical Notes on almost every person mentioned!! I've never seen this before and it is amazing.

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  7. Jan 30
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  8. Jan 30

    53/ More nuance. Instead of the debate over whether education is just skill training or signaling, maybe it's complex and many things.

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  9. Jan 30

    52/ Learning how math works by building a machine to do the math!

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  10. Jan 30

    51/ "These aren't the nineties you are looking for..."

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  11. Jan 30

    50/ More things that haven't changed since 1970 :-/

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  12. Jan 30

    49/ Nothing like a well designed and fabricated crankshaft

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  13. Jan 30

    48/ He also invented new art techniques?

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  14. Jan 30

    47/ Another sobering look at why single-product markets like cars and trains are hard to revolutionize.

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  15. Jan 30

    46/ Why don't we have great fleets of hydrofoils?

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  16. Jan 30

    45/ Oh those youngersters

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  17. Jan 30

    44/ Air force needing oxygen for pilots -> research to make oxygen -> cheap oxygen -> cheaper steel making -> order of magnitude cheaper steel. 🤯

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  18. Jan 30

    43/ Advances in material science are the root cause for a mind-blowing number of technological advances. The field is still underappreciated.

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  19. Jan 30

    42/ Did you know that Stirling (of Stirling Engine fame) was a clergyman? So much early science (see: Mendel) was done by clergymen because monasteries were one of the few places where you had a bunch of educated people with time and relative safety on their hands ...

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  20. Jan 30

    41/ He's calling out that electric cars would be awesome ... in 1970. Problem was the batteries. Imagine if we had a good way to encode which technologies would be amazing except for a precise constraint - how much awesome could we unlock?

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  21. Jan 30
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