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Brains Showcase 2025
And some meta-lessons
Jun 10
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Ben Reinhardt
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May 2025
[Announcement] AI Brains Q+A Sessions
You bring the questions, we'll bring the answers
May 27
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Ben Reinhardt
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Applications open for AI Brains
We want your [digital] Brains
May 13
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Ben Reinhardt
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April 2025
Humanoid Robots in Manufacturing
Or, there's a reason we don't pull cars with mechanical horses
Apr 8
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Ben Reinhardt
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March 2025
What does it mean for a technology to scale?
A particular failure mode that we’ve noticed among scientists and engineers doing ambitious technology research is ignoring the question “does this…
Mar 18
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Ben Reinhardt
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February 2025
Unbundling the University
An extended essay on the university, its history, pre-commercial research, and concrete actions to enable more awesome
Feb 11
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Ben Reinhardt
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January 2025
Meet the 2025 Brains Fellows
We’re excited to introduce the 2025 class of Brains Fellows!
Jan 30
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Ben Reinhardt
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Meet the 2025 Brains Fellows
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Spectech Lessons and Updated Hypotheses from 2024
Things we got right, things we got wrong, and things we didn't know we didn't know
Jan 14
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Ben Reinhardt
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December 2024
Materials and Manufacturing Underpin Civilization
My talk from Progress Conference 2024
Dec 26, 2024
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Ben Reinhardt
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Unbundling the University, Pre-commerical Research, and Speculative Technologies
An executive summary of a forthcoming piece
Dec 26, 2024
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Ben Reinhardt
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Giving Tuesday
An excuse to support new institutions and an amazing future.
Dec 3, 2024
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Ben Reinhardt
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How the University got its roles
A disgustingly abbreviated history of the modern university with a special focus on research and the creation of new knowledge and technology
Dec 3, 2024
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Ben Reinhardt
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