1. Why are there so few large scale crimes, attacks, or security incidents?
  2. How do we defend cities against cheap drone swarms? My fear is that there is going to be a 9/11 like moment for cities post which everyone scrambles to figure out how to defend public spaces, events, etc.
  3. What would you put on Voyager 3? An llm?
  4. There are so many good domain/twitter names that are taken and dormant. How do we get them back into circulation?
  5. Why is Janet Air’s cheatline red?
  6. Who?
    1. https://sherwood.news/power/who-died-and-left-the-us-7-billion-fayez-sarofim/
    2. https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/MMCCEQKA4UPGGWFWEBWLYKHTYCAOQIZS/?sort=date
  7. How do we make city skylines dynamic? They are extremely static, they should feel alive. What is the closest thing to a 'shape shifting building'?
  8. Most big airlines have stakes in a lot of other airlines. Why? Also, why are hotel & airline check-ins still so manual? what role do co's like Amadeus/Sabre, IATA, etc. still play? how does the money flow in this business? (esp considering rewards, loyalty programs, credit cards, etc.)
  9. In fields (that nobody thinks about) like perfume bottle design, plane interior design, etc. who is:
    1. the most legendary
    2. extremely underrated
  10. Will Boeing exist in 20 years?
    1. this was 22 years ago: https://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=213075
    2. aging workforce, no new plane model this decade, why would a young talented aerospace engineer join? so essentially you have B players and the A players have retired and nobody remembers how to design, make, and certify new planes
    3. incoming Chinese competition - this is the scariest. COMAC will sell lots of planes in asia, africa, and south america. how is Boeing going to deal with this?
  11. How do we develop better "brain defenses"?
    1. For centuries, things like the 10 commandments (and religion in general) taught humans how to build mental defenses against the vices/temptations/ideas of their time
    2. But then the internet and social media changed everything about how we interact with information and people. This happened so quickly that I don't think we had the time to develop good theories/practices on how best to protect our brains against them.
    3. And now we have the AI wave coming.
  12. "Shared Trauma" as a way of team building is very underrated (frats get this right). How do you design systems/companies/teams around this more carefully?
  13. What metrics would you use to measure how well our civilization is doing? For ex:
    1. [higher is good] number of humans, average lifespan, number of planets colonized, total energy production, birth rate, compute capacity, etc.
  14. Most exponentials are only exponentials in hindsight or only visible to very few people. What are some "exponentials" that people will be talking about in the next 5 years? Alternatively, what are the fringe technologies of today?