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by hackerlight 2y ago
What kind of things are they doing with AI?
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by hackerlight 2y ago
The market by itself can never solve this problem because the tragedy of the commons is not addressable by market mechanisms. It is impossible due to the game theory dynamics at play. You need top down force applied to align incentives wi
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by hackerlight 2y ago
Maybe that would be your mindset, but I think you haven't grappled with the potential consequences of global warming. If we get to 3-5C warming, what do you think will happen to equatorial countries where half the population can't
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by hackerlight 2y ago
Climate change isn't binary. If we limit it to 2-3C that's a lot less suffering, war and devastation than 4-5C. And I think we have a shot at achieving that thanks to the miracle of economies of scale driven cost declines we are s
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by hackerlight 2y ago
Consider that your geographical location may be biasing your top 3 worries. If you were forced to live near the equator and suffered the wet bulb temperatures for yourself, and you couldn't afford air conditioning, I am confident you w
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by hackerlight 2y ago
Are you just now learning that words have definitions? Do you know what a definition is? The Holocaust is defined , a priori, as the Nazi genocide of Jews, whether in gas chambers or in killing fields. It's a word with a definition. T
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by hackerlight 2y ago
Another benefit is it's all onshore, the US has energy security and independence of critical industries from China as a priority.
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by hackerlight 2y ago
> I guess what I'm trying to get at in this strange ramble is that ultimately DEI should be focused on diversity of thought, and not just superficial characteristics, yet it never works out that way. I think you're missing the
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by hackerlight 2y ago
> The next project would be Willow Rock Energy Storage Center, located near Rosamond in Kern County, California, with a capacity of 500 megawatts and the ability to run at that level for eight hours. Their California battery will be 4GWh
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by hackerlight 2y ago
It's easy to forget tangible win-win examples like this[1] or this[2]. Speaking from my personal experience, it's improved my life by reducing tedium associated with writing code. Small wins, but there's lots of them spread o
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by hackerlight 2y ago
US is pivoting to APAC, not away. That's the important theatre in the next decade, as agreed upon by basically everyone related to the US military and foreign policy. In particular, pursuing China containment policy, which is biparti
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by hackerlight 2y ago
Depends how good their next model is, and if they prevent leaks and departures so they can prolong the lead for an undetermined amount of time.
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by hackerlight 2y ago
This is extremely dishonest unless you carefully and methodically link that high cost to renewables. Iowa is a 60% wind grid with cheaper prices than the national average. Does that one data point make wind energy good, by your logic? This
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by hackerlight 2y ago
Cost declines have made storage viable already: https://reneweconomy.com.au/batteries-smash-more-records-as-... Global storage production is 1TW/h per annum now and will increase to 4TW/h by 2030, while also being
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by hackerlight 2y ago
That is the true cost of nuclear, though. Costs associated with social licensing are just costs, no different from labor or materials. The safety requirements may be excessive and irrational, but they're not going away while the genera
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by hackerlight 2y ago
> The only unilateral solution seems to be a technological one Or a political one. Developed countries provide them a small financial incentive to build out renewables instead. Some kind of UN fund. It doesn't have to be a large inc
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by hackerlight 2y ago
Europe is more challenging than US due to lower average solar irradiance per sqm combined with more seasonal variability in solar availability. Probably overbuilding wind in diversified locations since the correlation drops off with the squ
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by hackerlight 2y ago
Sorry but you're stuck in the past and have failed to update with new information. Pull up a graph of renewables levelized cost of electricity, and lithium ion grid scale storage cost per kWh, over the last 20 years, and note change. R
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by hackerlight 2y ago
Getting rid of nuclear is stupid but so is adding new nuclear. Firmed renewables with lithium ion batteries and pumped hydro makes the most financial sense since the 2020s, especially in the US which has less seasonal solar resources than E
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by hackerlight 2y ago
And the denominator isn't just the number of Boeing whistleblowers but the number of similar cases where whistleblowers could have died and raised suspicions, but didn't. We can't just cherry pick the Boeing example after the
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by hackerlight 2y ago
But why would any executive organize that and risk life in prison for their 0.3 percent ownership stake? They could just retire rich and leave the problems to the shareholders. Is there criminal liability that the executives may face that c
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by hackerlight 2y ago
Putin and CCP intelligence services are all over Facebook and other social media platforms[1]. This is a concerted effort across every possible avenue. It's not about Israel-Palestine per se, it's about trying to maximize every po
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by hackerlight 2y ago
It was always "effective enough relative to the safety risk of rare blood clots". There was never any attempt to suppress knowledge of blood clots, it was international news and widely acknowledged by everyone as a risk associated
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by hackerlight 2y ago
Ignorance leads to the assumption a piece of economic activity is zero sum. You see it everywhere
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by hackerlight 2y ago
It's not undefined, though. That's the point I'm getting at. There is no binary of known and unknown. A tentative picture exists based on animal trials and expert judgment. That tentative picture informs an estimation of the
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by hackerlight 2y ago
You've proposed a nonsensical epistemic framework. Knowing isn't binary. You should have a probability distribution over possibilities, based on your experience with similar drugs, expert hunches and animal trials. You then use th
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Microsoft announces largest-ever corporate procurement of renewable energy(pv-magazine-usa.com)
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by hackerlight 2y ago
That's definitely not true. I remember clearly health authorities and the media were completely open that 1 in N people will die from blood clots. From the beginning.
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by hackerlight 2y ago
That is a better metric. So, what do your calculations show for 2023?
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by hackerlight 2y ago
You're not really imagining visual scenes, the resolution just isn't there if you think about it. It's more like you're imagining low resolution encodings, which is definitely the smart and efficient way of doing it that

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