When I first started working in ML/AI, the idea of exponential progress felt like fantasy. Frankly, I didn’t buy into it until very recently. But when I postmortem where I was wrong, it feels obvious: the curve of human progress follows this compounding slope. The last 100 years alone are indicative of the insanity. And when you think about humanity becoming a multiplanetary species, achieving abundance, and eradicating disease of course it all happens through the exponential. It almost certainly has to. The gravity against progress is so severe that escape velocity becomes the natural extension. Recently, I think many of us feel like we’re peering through the doorway into the future that isn’t too far away anymore. And through it somehow we’re more connected to the nature of the universe.