Human Directed Futures

Omar Shams (@omarshams): How to hyper-scale compute beyond Earth's energy capacity...and aim for the Moon.

Clayton Rabideau (@ClaytonRab): Building foundation models and assessing novel dataset opportunities in computational biology.

Harvey Michael Pratt (@npceo_): "Slop: The Only Way Out is Through" from building an AI game focused on game design to Scroll, Like, Obey, & Post.

Katherine Dee (@default_friend): How the collapse of truth invites a return to narrative, symbolism, and mythmaking as primary tools for meaning-making in our new era.

Adrian Kilian (@thegadak): Using AI to develop novel, minimally invasive surgical techniques.

Jake Hamilton of @NockBoxInc: Building distributed infrastructure for Zero-Knowledge Proof of Useful Work.

Dr Neal Davis (@sigilante): "Zero-knowledge proofs and the historical conditions of belief"

Sunny Aggarwal (@sunnya97): Examining historical patterns of revolution from "The Crown and the Commons".

York Westenhaver (@YorkTheWest): Exploring the paradigm shift from Large Language Models to Large Economic Models and implications for the future of automation.

Daniel Keller (@dnlklr): "The New Culture of Sloptimism and Hypergambling;" from helping raise money in global online networks to leveraging AI-powered diligence.

Demands we make of art evolves from the available technology. Portable paint enabled Impressionism en plein air. Photography freed painting from just portrait & still life. Eventually, it was seen as its own form, and not merely a mechanical process. What is art in the AI age?

Pablo Peniche Aqua Voice, Head of Growth Searching for a new architectural language through mechanistic interpretability and Palladian design principles. @pabloantonio

Charles Rosenbauer American Compute Company, Founder A full-stack, default tolerant approach from compiler to chip fab for processor production resilience and availability.

Cormac Siegfried Trustfoundry.ai, Cofounder Building AI for local governments with trusted legal search providing accurate, affordable, and comprehensive legal citations for lawyers and developers.