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Exponential improvement is a very powerful lesson, for sure. Exponential increases in capability or applicability or exponential decreases in cost describe the

• adventured 7y ago
  > But what exactly is an exponentially superior food? In this case, perhaps the ability in time to produce 10x the meat ('meat') at 10% the environmental damage of our current output. We're adding ~85-90m people per year. Most of them are going to want to eat things like beef, fish, chicken, bacon and so on. A billion new people per decade is an enormous increase in demand for meat, to say nothing of the already existing several billion people in the bottom 1/2 with rising consumer demands for meat. It looks like we're going to be able to solve this problem and relatively soon (it will still take decades to fully scale up globally and perfect complex products, however that will occur). It's an exciting time, getting to watch the innovation and real store-worthy products just starting to take off at a consumer level.
• technotony 7y ago
  In this case it's mainly our understanding of protein structure/texture/taste which is a new capability.