🔮 Complexity & history; technological sovereignty; fighting the algorithm; generative biology; bee teaching, solar power, fast chips++ #244
The environmental costs of AI are growing at a phenomenal rate
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📅 Save the date! We have two State of the Exponential members-only briefings coming up in December:
On Dec 5, Penny Mealy, a Research Associate at the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the University of Oxford Martin School, will join us to discuss the intersection of complexity economics and job transitions.
On Dec 10, Kyle Samani, the Managing Parent at crypto-native investment firm Multicoin Capital will join us to discuss investing in blockchain. Kyle raised a $75 million fund from investors including Andreessen Horowitz, to invest in cryptocurrency projects.
📚 Author’s circle: Our friends at the MIT Press want to share copies of Dr. Ramesh Shrinivasan’s great new book Beyond the Valley with EV member…