Welcome to The Compute Optimist: the optimistic case for AI, compute, and tech. By @edtarnowski Subscribe and read manifesto 👇

Next @ComputeOptimist piece drops Monday!

Data After Dark in VICE tonight: “For Ed Tarnowski, the founder of The Compute Optimist, it’s a matter of historical scale. ‘It really is our generation’s Industrial Revolution, but bigger,’ he tells me. He doesn’t deny the risks, but his bet is that ‘the risk of slowing down is far greater than pushing forward.’”

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Less a "slow-motion car crash." More of a rocket launch to the moon. Thankfully, everyone's invited! Come party with us.

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New friends and followers, ICYMI, I founded @ComputeOptimist earlier this month: analysis, reporting, and the receipts on the technologies poised to drive unprecedented human prosperity—if we let them. Fear about AI + tech sells. I'm building the opposite. Read the manifesto 👇

We’re in the midst of our generation’s industrial revolution. AI and other emerging technologies are poised to push the bounds of human prosperity. But only if we let them. Optimism is how we win. That’s what #DataAfterDark is all about.

The Pro-Data Center Party photos are live! ⚡️ Thank you to @JoinYoungVoices, @PirateWires, and @ComputeOptimist for hosting us and putting together such a great event! Definitely a night to remember! libertyseeds.com/photography…

The Compute Optimist is proud and excited to be co-presenting Data After Dark by @edtarnowski, @JonasYDu, and Casey Given tonight. American compute dominance is necessary to all of the emerging technologies poised to push the bounds of human prosperity!

Without human intervention, the AI-powered robotic surgeon achieved a 100% success rate across 8 cases, completing all surgical tasks. This included identifying and grasping ducts and arteries, placing clips, and making necessary cuts My debut article for @ComputeOptimist 👇

~60% of rural Medicare patients undergoing high-risk surgeries traveled >1 hr for care. AI-powered advances in surgical robotics may be laying the groundwork for better equipping rural areas with specialized surgical capabilities, even w/o a human specialist physically present Read my debut article for @ComputeOptimist 👇

AI is supercharging surgical robotics. In 3 years, a roboticist’s work evolved from following a predetermined surgical plan in a controlled environment to demonstrating adaptive autonomy in executing a complex, critical phase of surgery. Read my debut @ComputeOptimist article

AI is rapidly advancing surgical robotics, but a device capable of adaptive autonomy hasn’t been tested on people yet Just this week, the DOD/W is betting millions on that changing soon, noting that surgical robotics could be a game changer for US soldiers on the battlefield. There, otherwise treatable injuries can turn fatal when specialized surgeons can’t easily reach them. Read my debut @ComputeOptimist article 👇

My first story for @ComputeOptimist drops tomorrow! Hope you'll give it a read.

Periods of transformative technological progress—driven by markets and a robust private sector—have left humanity overwhelmingly better off. Some say "AI is different." This is arbitrary. They said the steam engine was "different" too. History tells us periods like this have turned luxuries, from air travel to automobiles to antibiotics, into normal parts of everyday life. They’ve created not only more jobs in place of those made obsolete, but jobs enabling a far better quality of life. And at this point in the AI revolution, there's no evidence that this time will be different. Read the manifesto 👇

First article drops this week!

Fear sells because it asks nothing of the reader except attention. Optimism has to earn it, since it requires actually making the case with evidence rather than just triggering alarm. This is the harder project, and the more useful one. Following along.

The Compute Optimist’s purpose is not to suggest that AI carries no risks, but to assert that the risk of suppressing AI development is far greater than the risk of forging ahead Subscribe and read the manifesto below 👇