Eli Dourado
@elidourado
Creatively deploying capital to accelerate rad technologies at @AsteraInstitute. 🚀 tfp/acc
🚨🚨🚨 EXCITING PERSONAL UPDATE 🚨🚨🚨 I am delighted to say that after next week I am joining the @AsteraInstitute as head of strategic investments. Many foundations grow and maintain their billion-dollar endowments in perpetuity, while funding large staffs that spend money…
The zero-sum trap: the more people believe that wealth, status, and well-being are zero-sum, the more they back policies that make the world zero-sum. marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…
Flounder Mode, what a great term
I talked to my friend and infovore @packyM about my latest essay, Flounder Mode, and what it’s like to have a weird career.
Yet another reason airplanes are better than trains.
NEW: @MiamiHerald / @WLRN investigation reveals 182 people have been struck and killed by Brightline trains. While key safety measures are delayed, Brightline remains the deadliest passenger train in U.S. We compared with other railroads to explain why. miamiherald.com/news/local/art…
Are Volcanoes a Risk to Solar Dominated Grids? austinvernon.site/blog/solarandv… The answer seems to be no because solar capacity will be overbuilt and the dimming effects of SO2 are sub linear. Net solar output would only be affected for a few percent of hours, like a cold winter.
“The ‘less and less’ attitude has everyone in materials R&D focused on greening the end-of-history tech (steel, cement, plastic, fertilizer) or even moving backwards …. It’s out of touch with the longer contours of history” @salmon_mckay Great piece: orcasciences.com/articles/the-f…
We’re excited to support Energy IoT Open Source’s work to democratize access to microgrids — a decentralized, open-source platform can change lives and deliver real-world impact
⚡️Big news! @AsteraInstitute awarded a $100K grant to @EnergyIOT to expand open-source microgrids—starting with a new energy lab at Port Labs in Oakland. Decentralized. Resilient. Open for all. 🌍 👉 Learn more: eiot.energy #ClimateTech #Microgrids #OpenSourceEnergy
TFP growth still sucks. Do we live in the dumbest timeline or what?
Had the new Grok waifu talk to Claude voice mode. Tell me this doesn't sound EXACTLY like an egirl trying to rizz up an autistic guy at an SF party?
Laypeople don't get why building hardware that operates at scale in the world is hard. The world is full of unexpected surprises, including small creatures looking to make cozy homes amongst avionics
Not my district, but as a new Californian this video is perfectly calibrated to get my vote.
California should flourish. But right now, our cost of living is insane, wildfires rage, homelessness is everywhere, and red tape chokes our ability to solve any of it. I’m 6th generation Californian Dick Lucas and I’m running for State Assembly to unshackle California.
ROFL that Trump is in this celebration.
THE TROPHY IS OURS!!! 🔵
By this time next year, either: 🏆 we'll have engineered PETase enzymes actually work industrially & recycle plastic ... or we'll know that AI-for-proteins is still a bit underbaked 😜 Excited to see what happens!!!! 😬 Spread the word ⬇️
1/4 🚀 Announcing the 2025 Protein Engineering Tournament. This year’s challenge: design PETase enzymes, which degrade the type of plastic in bottles. Can AI-guided protein design help solve the climate crisis? Let’s find out! ⬇️ #AIforBiology #ClimateTech #ProteinEngineering…