🔮 Information in war; ChatGPT and twitter; old scientists; life on Mars and radical millenials++ #404

An exponential tale: Ukraine’s supremacy in information makes its military more effective than Russia’s reliance on explosives

Hi, I’m Azeem Azhar. I convene Exponential View to help us understand how our societies and political economy are changing under the force of rapidly accelerating technologies.

In today’s edition:

• Ukraine’s supremacy in information helps its military compensate for Russia’s advantages in things that go boom

• Using ChatGPT to explore counterfactual scenarios,

• The age of innovators changes how creative they are, and whether their research is more theoretical, or experimental.