Civilization Metrics
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21 foundational, hard metrics on the output and capabilities of human civilization
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Get to know your local planetary civilization. See how the sum total of human civilization's capabilities and output has grown over the years. Forget narratives -- just run the numbers with cold, hard, well-defined units that map to physical reality. civilizationmetrics.org
Are you a MXene (pronounced: maxine) maxi? interestingengineering.com/innovation/mxe…
interestingengineering.com
Study: MXene versatile material successfully mass-produced
A team of researchers at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), developed a method to predict the distribution of molecules on the surface using the magnetoresistance property of MXene.
The nature of any technology is that its growth and advancement leads to lower real prices, often, dramatically so. Therefore, even with a fixed monetary measure, observing a technological good based on revenue would underestimate its growth, and the growth of absolute wealth.
Terrible for human health the way lighting has shifted, but excellent for human productivity, especially in developing nations. If far-UVC becomes 10x cheaper and has 10x higher efficiency (visible LEDs are 2 orders of magnitude more efficient), respiratory disease ~disappears.
Thermoelectric cooling with >2x the cooling power using a novel annealing approach with half-Heusler alloys. Excellent coefficient of performance, too! What consumer-brained moron told you technology progress in atoms has been stagnant for decades? 🧐 scitechdaily.com/innovative-hig…
Funny notion of "ownership" you folks have out there. The reality is, unless you are operating as a sovereign nation state, you never really own real estate, you simply rent it from the government.
One fun thing about owning a home in San Francisco is that it’s illegal to replace my street-facing windows with new energy-efficient and sound-insulating double pane designs because busybodies at the planning department think they look tacky. default.sfplanning.org/publications_r…
Yes, they certainly do burn a lot of rubber. Road wear grows with the quartic of vehicle weight so those heavy battery packs have another destructive trick up their sleeve there.
Fake healthcare (macro BS, despite micro science)... does not make it onto the list of Civilization Metrics. No dents detected so far.
Ok, buddy, tell me how you use software to solve thermal challenges in hypersonic vehicles. Now tell me how you use software to solve communication challenges with that ball of plasma and speed of light delay challenges. You worked at a company that doesn't do hard hardware. 🤡
After 7 years at spacex you realize that hardware problems are overhyped It is a common SW perspective that hardware is hard. It’s not: It’s just physics, design, manufacturing, and capital Real engineering magic comes from SW
We look forward to adding a 22nd metric to our website: yearly bipedal robot production.
The thing nobody talks about is that in 10 years we'll have a million bipedal robots and in 25 years we'll have a billion. You’ll buy yours for $10k and it will be as important to your life as your smartphone is now
Gm, we never stopped building, you just might be an oblivious parasite on the sidelines slowing down the real builders. newatlas.com/aircraft/ge-cf…
"Boeing to focus on truss-braced..." @pmarca, credit where credit is due Looks like Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun got your message *IT'S TIME TO BUILD* LFG 🚀🚀🚀
That's right. The only people who think "we peaked" are tech-illiterate LARPers who figured out they can grift by adopting the persona of a technologist, without actually doing any work. The things most people "get excited about the future for" is outsourced content marketing.
I often (wrongly) romanticize that the era of the sr71 was the pinnacle of hardcore engineering the f-35b is 10x more advanced. yeah the sr71 did so much without advanced computers, but holy fuck man the f-35b is science fiction brought to life
If the price of copper or gold doubles, production surges, bringing down price. As dollars (which are mostly digital) experience a surge in demand, after a few clicks, supply is increased. Is there anything (physical or digital) in the world with an absolute cap on supply? 🤔
For those under delusion we are living through a great stagnation, perhaps due to being Peter Thiel or @pmarca thinkboi class, that neither builds or seriously invests, thereby only learning about new tech alongside general public: when in doubt, zoom out. popularmechanics.com/military/aviat…
Not many people aware of this, but basic numerical literacy, primarily around counting and addition, makes this pretty obvious. We make it easy for you. We have a website that visually shows the aggregation of quantities over time of things humans nearly universally care about.
People point out there is little impressive about investors of past 15 years who have simply been beneficiaries of easy money. There are also a number of people who fancy themselves technologists, but recall, the base (i.e. reference) rate has and will continue to rise rapidly.
Passenger-miles are one of the metrics we track and aviation is a great example of Jevons paradox. With the Rolls-Royce UltraFan engine cutting fuel costs by a stupendous 25%, we can expect passenger miles to see a greater than 33% jump from this alone. newatlas.com/aircraft/rolls…
Disprove the "automation mass unemployment, different this time" argument in 3 words? Ok: LABOR COST PERCENTAGE Done Highly stable: automation drops costs, including labor, lifting total consumption as output grows, increasing labor demand via Jevons paradox. Run the numbers.
The B-2 Spirit was $737m in 1997, which is around $1.4-2.5b in today's dollars. The new B-21 Raider costs only $692m, while offering unimaginably superior performance. People have been building. Technology has been rapidly advancing. You just don't know where or care to look.
Category: LEDs Syzygy Plasmonics raised a $76m series C this month. They are building a new type of catalytic cracking process that relies on low cost LEDs rather than high cost high temperatures. LEDs have fallen in cost by ~50x over the past 15 years. newatlas.com/energy/light-c…
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