Techno-Optimism

GPT-5.4 just solved a math problem that a leading researcher spent 20 years engineering to be unsolvable by AI—a watershed moment arriving the same week Karpathy released a tool letting a single GPU run 100 autonomous research experiments overnight. Meanwhile, a retinal chip smaller than a fingernail just restored meaningful vision to 84% of blind trial patients in a peer-reviewed New England Journal of Medicine study. The frontier is moving faster than the skeptics can update their priors.

Techno-Optimism Tech

Merz Called It a Mistake. Then He Called It Irreversible.

March 16, 2026 · 6 min read

Germany's nuclear phase-out is costing factories, workers, and the climate. The man who said it was wrong now says nothing can be done.

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Techno-Optimism Tech

GPT-5.4 Cracked a 20-Year Math Problem

March 14, 2026 · 6 min read

A Polish mathematician spent two decades building a research-level problem no AI could touch. Run 11 proved him wrong.

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Techno-Optimism Tech

Karpathy Just Turned One GPU Into a Research Lab

March 08, 2026 · 7 min read

The human writes a Markdown file. The AI runs 100 experiments overnight. The bottleneck isn't compute, it's your program.md.

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Media & Narrative Tech

Trae Stephens Wants to Buy Wired. He's Right.

March 03, 2026 · 6 min read

A 2011 article about male birth control became a Founders Fund investment. That's what great journalism does. Wired forgot.

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Tech Tech & Startup Regulation

Anthropic's War on Its Own Power Users

February 25, 2026 · 4 min read

Paying $200/month and getting banned for using what you paid for isn't "abuse." It's a business model failure.

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Techno-Optimism Budgets & Fiscal Policy

Data Center NIMBYs Are Killing $1 Trillion in AI Infrastructure

February 22, 2026 · 5 min read

Housing NIMBYs already took 36% of GDP. Now the same playbook is blocking the AI economy. The states that figure out how to share the upside will win the future.

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