tsungxu

• tsungxu 15 Aug 2022 22:35 UTC

  2 points

  in reply to: jasoncrawford’s comment on: A New Ma­te­ri­als Paradigm Is Overdue

  Sure thing, thanks for the link!

  True atomic scale manufacturing is definitely an exciting future tech! One angle from some proponents of cell-free catalysis is that enzymes is a path to atomic scale manufacturing and assembly. For example, Aether Bio has nano-manufacturing in the spirit of what you are saying as their vision.

• tsungxu 15 Aug 2022 21:27 UTC

  2 points

  in reply to: jasoncrawford’s comment on: A New Ma­te­ri­als Paradigm Is Overdue

  I do see synbio as the most promising source of new materials with a huge range of properties, scalable manufacturing, and ability to come down cost curves amongst other tailwinds. Graphene, as an example of perhaps a nanotech material, is also scaling well in an array of uses after surviving a hype cycle. Metamaterials are talked about a lot, but seems like we’re still earlier in their commercialization from my limited understanding of them.

  On the history of the development of plastics, this is thorough and one of the better resources I’ve found. It’s a 20 part series of articles (and counting since last I checked). I’ve linked all of them here as the url path naming convention is inconsistent.

  Tracing the History of Polymeric Materials: Part 1

  Tracing the History of Polymeric Materials—Part 2

  Tracing the History of Polymeric Materials, Part 3

  Tracing the History of Polymeric Materials, Part 4

  Tracing the History of Polymeric Materials: Part 5

  Tracing the History of Polymeric Materials: Part 6

  Tracing the History of Polymeric Materials: Part 7

  Tracing the History of Polymeric Materials: Part 8

  Tracing the History of Polymeric Materials: Part 9

  Tracing the History of Polymeric Materials: Part 10

  Tracing the History of Polymeric Materials: Part 11

  Tracing the History of Polymeric Materials: Part 12

  Tracing the History of Polymeric Materials, Part 13

  Tracing the History of Polymeric Materials: Part 14

  Tracing the History of Polymeric Materials: Part 15

  Tracing the History of Polymeric Materials: Part 16

  Tracing the History of Polymeric Materials: Part 17

  Tracing the History of Polymeric Materials: Part 18

  Tracing the History of Polymeric Materials: Part 19

  Tracing the History of Polymeric Materials: Part 20

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• tsungxu 21 May 2022 17:40 UTC

  2 points

  on: The Ter­ra­punk Man­i­festo—a So­larpunk alternative

  Do more with more indeed! To that end, I really like Aurelia Institute’s vision for human habits in LEO and beyond.

• tsungxu 16 May 2022 16:08 UTC

  2 points

  on: Na­ture of progress in Deep Learning

  I’ve looked mostly at progress from an energy lens, and I think the upper bound constraint for progress is relevant there too.

  Coal was restricted largely to space heating until the steam engine, which itself was restricted to stationary applications until the steam locomotive. Oil’s first beachhead was kerosene lamps, decades before internal combustion engines were commercialized. Electricity needed the build out of vast, centralized grids and large coal and hydro power stations. I wrote more about this in this section of a recent long read.

  I’m also very interested in the question of how to best accelerate the “dark matter” ecosystem and fast track the next AlexNet in whatever domain it happens to be. I too would be interested to see examples of domains that require minimal infrastructure and dark matter.

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