1/ 🛡️ The FUTURE of WARFARE isn’t a “revolution” but an evolution—a mix of drones, AI, and smart strategy. What’s the playbook for Taiwan, Ukraine, and beyond?
A quick high-level dive📡
2/ 🛰️ The Gulf War heralded stealth, precision, & GPS.
Today, uncrewed systems (drones) + AI define the battlefield. But there are limits. Attrition wars teach hard lessons.
3/ 🔥 UKRAINE's lessons for TAIWAN:
Drones disrupt but aren’t invincible.
Customized kamikaze drones carry ~5kg payloads, fly ~19km + force adversaries to spend $$$ on defense.
2/ More than 3.5 billion years ago, life on Earth emerged from chemical reactions.
Nature invented RNA, proteins, and DNA, the core molecules of life, and created the ribosome, a molecular factory that builds proteins from instructions in the genome.
3/ Proteins are wondrous dynamic molecules with incredible FUNCTIONS
-molecular engines powering motion
-photosynthetic machines capturing and converting to energy
-scaffolding building skeletons of cells
-complex sensors interacting with environment
-information processing systems running the programming operating system of life
1/ Quick thread 🧵important new paper 📜from @sfiscience on the THERMODYNAMICS of COMPUTATION...
Ever wondered why your gadgets get warm after using them for a while? As with cells🧫, brains🧠 and laptops💻––it's all about energy use and heat🔥....
2/ The key is "stopping times". In biology a cell might stop making a protein once it triggers a reaction from another cell. In simulations like a coin-flipping it may be once it reaches a set number of flips...
3/ Estimates are that computers use 5-9% of global energy (AI will only increase this📈). Biological systems on the other hand are 100,000x more energy-efficient...
1. Riskgaming 2. Possible adjacencies + the ADJACENT POSSIBLE 3. Build your cash position for tuck-in M&A 4. Prepare for rising cost of capital (and a lot less of it)… 5. Moravec Paradox––what’s easy is hard and what’s hard is easy
3/ Lux family companies including @anduriltech , @SakanaAILabs, @togethercompute, @VardaSpace, @AppliedInt have raised war chest balance sheets…
watch for rising cost of capital, more powerful labor unions…
1/ We lost a brilliant, accomplished, self-effacing, humble, kind, compassionate, truth-seeking HUMAN certain only of uncertainty, child like wonder cataloging our fallabilities
2/ We ate🍽 at brilliant friend+ 🎬artist (Moneyball, Capote, Foxcatcher) Bennett Miller's apt + talked ketamine & psychedelics (Danny had done), the pain of conflict in the mideast**, how both free will + consciousness were in Danny's POV total illusions even if useful ones
3/ At dinner a friend asked Danny (Israeli) how he was + he answered
The friend thought he said "I'm partly I'll at ease"
And asked "why partly?"
Danny said "huh?"
Friend repeated: "you said you were partly ill at ease"
Danny smiled: "No. I said part of me is in the Middle East"