Ben Reinhardt
@Ben_Reinhardt
Dare mighty things! Journeyman wondersmith @spec__tech. Past: space and eldercare robots, AR, medieval history, etc. Long games. 🏴☠️🪐🐉
1/ For the past year, we’ve been building a new research organization: Speculative Technologies (@spec__tech) exists to create an abundant, wonder-filled future by unlocking powerful materials and manufacturing technologies that don’t have a home in other institutions.
The Henry Adams curve, materials edition:
I’d forgotten about that Henry Adams graphic. I probably could have spared some verbiage and just pointed out that we see the Henry Adams curve in materials too.
The corollary is that writing should be about things you want to genuinely think through -- not just things you want to have written about. The latter, unfortunately, is the vast majority of writing -- assignments, papers for publication, thought leadership pieces, etc.
Yes. Writing is not a second thing that happens after thinking. The act of writing is an act of thinking. Writing *is* thinking. Students, academics, and anyone else who outsources their writing to LLMs will find their screens full of words and their minds emptied of thought.
Yes. Writing is not a second thing that happens after thinking. The act of writing is an act of thinking. Writing *is* thinking. Students, academics, and anyone else who outsources their writing to LLMs will find their screens full of words and their minds emptied of thought.
Kind of an aside, but the way we fund research makes executing epic pivots like this completely impossible. (Outside of maybe some bizarre corner cases.)
becoming a billionaire because you founded “classpass for clubbing” (and then your cofounder navigated a successful pivot to an AI business) is *incredible lore*