🔮 Crypto networks & cities, decarbonization, an AI Hippocratic oath, ride-sharing, black holes & 3D-printed sushi++ #157

Dept of the near future

🏙️ Crypto networks are like cities. The best will grow from the ground up. And those designed with too much planning will fail. EV reader, Taylor Pearson, presents a very interesting thesis on the evolution of crypto networks with lessons from systems theory, complexity science and urban planning.

Blockchain-based machine-learning market places. Fred Ehrsam argues that the “combination of private machine learning with blockchain incentives can create the strongest machine intelligences.” Interesting idea I’ve been tracking for a while.

🍃 The road to decarbonization. Michael Liebreich on how “[a]stonishing progress is being made on super-efficient industrial processes, connected and shared vehicles, electrification of air transport, precision agriculture, food science, synthetic fuels… in the end, clean technologies will outcompete fossil-fuel-based approaches. They won’t even need a carbon price.” MUST READ

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