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That's not a techno solution worth to dream about, the real techno solution is a fine grained control of weather (like https://viento.ai https://viento.ai) and
by chr1 6y ago
That's not a techno solution worth to dream about, the real techno solution is a fine grained control of weather (like https://viento.ai https://viento.ai) and in that case the extra CO2 in atmosphere will be naturally sequestered in fields and farms in Sahara.
- neolog 6y agoThat "leadership team" doesn't seem qualified to be working in this area.
- dalbasal 6y agoAubrey de Grey, heh? IDK... now I like it more. What he is qualified for is running this sort of effort. I just don't know what to call this sort of effort. Viento is a ‘moonshot’ nonprofit pioneering targeted weather security... by combining big data, forecasting breakthroughs and AI directed weather interventions... framed as "break glass in case of climate emergency." So... I don't like the idea. I do however, like the way he puts together moonshot projects, generally. Maybe this will evolve into something better. It's useful to have 0.X% of people working on tech, to be doing it in an environment that isn't standard academia or big tech.
- pineaux 6y agoElon musk wasn't qualified to build a rocket company. Still pretty succesful though.
- neolog 6y agoHe had Ivy-league degrees in physics and economics and two billion dollars. More importantly, he wasn't the whole leadership team: the CTO was a rocket engineer and the COO had other experience.
- chobeat 6y agothanks but no thanks
- mckirk 6y agoTo be honest, the layout of that site does not exactly inspire confidence. But the team is interesting indeed. Incidentally, there's an online SSC meetup with Jaan Tallinn as guest, _today_: https://www.lesswrong.com/events/jQQYCdtiH5d3CtrNC/jaan-tallinn-at-the-slate-star-codex-online-meetup https://www.lesswrong.com/events/jQQYCdtiH5d3CtrNC/jaan-tall...