Rational Optimist Society
Rational Optimist Society, Dan Steinhart, Matt Ridley, Stephen McBrideMaking rational optimism cool
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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Ridley: We’re using the wrong pronouns for AI
Editor’s Note: Matt Ridley spoke about AI’s “pronoun issue” at a London conference last week. Our friends at Quantum Zeitgeist attended the speech and kindly let us republish their thoughts for you.
Most people who talk about artificial in...
New Podcast: The startup making houses affordable again
Dear Rational Optimist,
We’ve put supercomputers in our pockets and landed rockets back on their tails … but it takes us longer to build a house today than in 1971.
Speed that up, and we flip the housing crisis on its head.
Aleks Gampel...
America, you saved my life
In today’s Diary:
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The president who died of a sore throat
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Drinking each other’s dirt
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The tyranny of geography
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90 minutes from SF to Paris
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Home = the last frontier
Hey Rational Optimist,
The richest man in Am...
Ridley: We must finally embrace gene editing
Around the turn of the century, the world embarked on an experiment. The Americas embraced the genetic modification of crops; Europe rejected it and stuck with the old ways of generating new plant varieties – bombarding seeds with gamma ray...
The rational optimist’s guide to using AI
I’ve never gotten more emails in one day (over 500!) than when I asked ROS members:
Do you want to learn how to use AI to enhance your life?
So in this special edition of the Rational Optimist Diary, I’ll show you how I use AI to get more...
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Founder and EIC Rational Optimist Society. Reformed cynic.
Welcome to the Rational Optimist. I’m Matt Ridley and I have spent the past 40 years writing on topics of import and intrigue, which for me include genetics, evolution, technology and innovation. https://rationaloptimistsociety.substack.com/
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