Viruses Killing Cancer
Not as easy as it looks.
Farm the Ocean
Why don’t we? “It would be much cheaper and healthier to drop iron in the ocean and harvest the fish than to have millions of square kilometers of pasture for animals like cows. This would allow us then to convert… Read More »Farm the Ocean
Why Are Tropical Waters Dead, and Can They Kill Europe?
Pretty does not always mean healthy. “You know why tropical waters are so transparent?Because they’re dead.” https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/tropical-waters-are-dead-and-europe-might-freeze
dario, please!
Why we keep trusting CEOs when their incentive is just to make more money? “I feel like Dario is torn. He wants Anthropic to have this bad boy street cred of wielders of this crazy power, yet at the same… Read More »dario, please!
The Rapture of the Nerds: On the Delirium of Transhumanism
You cannot avoid wrestling with ethics and morality, no matter the system. “The Prime Directive itself is, arguably, the most pseudo-theological law ever conceived in science fiction. A secular commandment forged in Kantian steel, backed by liberal guilt and anthropological… Read More »The Rapture of the Nerds: On the Delirium of Transhumanism
Why the software industry needs a lot of regulation
I think this will need to change soon. “Engineers, even at big technology companies, don’t have the authority to make critical safety decisions. If an executive wants to ship self-driving software that has deadly flaws, they can just overrule any… Read More »Why the software industry needs a lot of regulation
Weapons of Mosquito Destruction
Kill them all? “So the challenge of anti-mosquito scientists today is: How do we come up with strategies that find and kill every single individual before they develop resistance? “ https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/weapons-of-mosquito-destruction
How Rivers Shaped States
Rivers matter. “If you think about it, the fact that Vietnam is made of two river deltas connected by a thin strip of coastal mountains makes it a very weird country” https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/how-rivers-shaped-states
What Is Democracy?
Nice explainer.
How Humans Wrestle Against Rivers
They are not just bringing life. “In the last 2500 years, the Yellow River has noticeably shifted its course 26 times, dramatically shifted nine times, and has flooded over 1,600 times. These floods are highly destructive and lethal. The worst… Read More »How Humans Wrestle Against Rivers