Dinesh Natesan

This post was written for the Astera Essay Competition and published initially as a google doc. We are posting this in LessWrong as we felt that this community can provide us with critical feedback and help improve the ideas presented in the essay. Disclaimer: LLMs were used to help frame...

Summary Vertical farming has the potential to unlock multiplicative yield gains per area of land and catalyze development of new technologies (precision farming, rapid genetic engineering, robotics based automation, etc.). Making this transition will exponentially benefit humanity (and other denizens of earth) in multiple ways. However, the current focus of...