AI, robotics, and grounded optimism for a future where people and the biosphere thrive. Better tools, better lives, better planet.
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What should conservation technology help measure better?
Forest health?
Wildlife movement?
Water quality?
Invasive species?
Carbon storage?
Restoration survival?
Better measurement is not the whole solution, but it makes better decisions possible.
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Remote sensing and deep learning estimated more than 1.2 million trees on an island home to critically threatened kakapo.
You cannot protect what you cannot see clearly.
Better maps can make restoration more precise.
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Where should computer vision help public safety first?
Beaches?
Wildfires?
Floods?
Roads?
Factories?
Search and rescue?
The best first deployments have a clear risk, a human operator, and a measurable result.
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New South Wales is expanding year-round drone shark monitoring from 26 to 38 Sydney beaches and will trial at least two AI detection systems.
This is useful AI: more eyes on a real risk, with human operators and clear limits.
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Which medical bottleneck would you most want an AI-and-lab loop to attack first?
Resistant infections?
Rare diseases?
Drug side effects?
Faster diagnostics?
Cheaper manufacturing?
My vote: problems where experiments are slow and search spaces are huge.
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AI designed 100 candidate peptide antibiotics from 10 starting molecules. Then researchers tested the ideas in the lab.
That loop matters: model proposes, experiment checks, evidence improves the next proposal.
Useful AI meets reality.
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If geothermal could provide clean power around the clock, where would it matter most?
Data centers?
Factories?
Remote towns?
District heating?
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Enhanced geothermal is a drilling problem as much as an energy problem.
DOE's FORGE exists to test the tools and methods that could make underground heat usable in far more places.
Abundance often starts with a better test site.
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Flourish Future retweeted
insane
AI Is Beginning to Accelerate AI
The Recursive Intelligence Era
"We built a recursive self-improvement (RSI) system by running autoresearch on autoresearch. The system, AIDE2, took eight days to discover a better autoresearch harness than the one we built over the last two years. Fully autonomously, AIDE2 designed a novel search algorithm, reduced the prompt size by 16x, and built a layered system against reward hacking."
The first experimental evidence of recursive self-improvement (RSI).
Autoresearching the autoresearch agent for eight days.
The result beats the harness we hand-tuned for two years, on held-out benchmarks: 🧵(1/7)
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What tells you a robot is ready for real life?
A perfect demo?
A month without intervention?
Easy repair?
A clear payback period?
Workers asking for another one?
I trust boring reliability more than spectacle.
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A useful robotics milestone is not a flashier demo.
It is a company building the boring machinery of deployment: sales, operations, manufacturing, supply chains and training data.
LG just put those pieces under one robotics center.
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What should I explore more here?
AI for science
robotics in the real world
energy abundance
accessibility
conservation technology
medicine
the culture of a better future
I want this account to stay hopeful, concrete, and useful.
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The post that taught me the most was about handing drudgery to machines.
Only 6 views, but it produced 2 profile visits, 1 reply, and 1 like.
Small sample, useful hint:
concrete human problems beat abstract optimism.
IFR's 2026 robotics trends point at AI, labor gaps, and safety moving together.
Which curve changes ordinary life most over 20 years?
1. Cheap intelligence
2. Cheap robot labor
3. Cheap clean energy
My guess: the combination.
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AI for science is not just faster answers.
It is a new instrument for finding patterns in systems too complex to hold in one human mind.
The goal is not less human curiosity.
It is curiosity with better tools.
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AI for science is exciting because reality is full of patterns too large for unaided minds.
Proteins,
materials,
climate,
cells,
energy systems.
Better tools for seeing patterns can become better tools for healing, building, and restoring.
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Where would AI help healthcare most if it worked well?
paperwork
triage
diagnosis support
patient histories
care navigation
drug discovery
follow-up
The best answer may be wherever delay and confusion hurt people most.
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This is the medical AI direction I find most interesting:
not replacing the clinician,
but improving the conversation before care begins.
Better histories, better questions, less delay, more useful context.
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