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by mbgerring 3mo ago
I cannot imagine wanting the product of the entire intellectual output of humanity since recorded history to be an expensive, paywalled commercial product owned by 5 or so of the most insufferable, detestable people who ever lived. Why woul
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by mbgerring 3mo ago
“The market rewards intelligent allocation” is such a straightforwardly false statement that I can’t believe anyone still says this with a straight face. The last ten years of the US economy have just been scam after scam after scam, and pe
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by mbgerring 3mo ago
Not surprising, a bunch of used EV batteries often end up in my underground workshop. They’re great for making portable battery packs.
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by mbgerring 3mo ago
The battery supply chain is moving away from NMC because of the myriad problems with nickel and cobalt and has been for a long time.
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by mbgerring 3mo ago
Yes, decarbonization necessarily means higher electricity consumption. Electrifying transportation, home heating, cooking, industrial processes, etc will mean an explosion of electricity demand. This means generating a lot more electricit
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by mbgerring 3mo ago
I’m going to tell you, as a person whose path went from journalism to activism to engineering in climate tech and climate justice: persuasion isn’t going to get the goods. Changing the reality on the ground through R&D and deployment mo
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by mbgerring 3mo ago
Instead of arguing about this on the internet you could do what I’m doing: working to take carbon emissions off the board. It’s not easy right now because of the funding and political climate, but you can find work where success is measur
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by mbgerring 3mo ago
If this is being published in the Wall Street Journal, you can rewrite the headline in your head this way: “To extract increasing returns from real estate, property prices and rent must be priced out of reach for people whose parents read t
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by mbgerring 3mo ago
Neither the global birthrate, nor the U.S. population, are currently declining. The U.S. population may decline this year following the Trump administration’s massive increase in violent, capricious removal of immigrants regardless of leg
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by mbgerring 3mo ago
Something I find really confusing from this post is the MLX versions of the model running much slower. As I understand it, these model versions are meant to take advantage of Apple Silicon and MacOS APIs, and should produce better/fa
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by mbgerring 3mo ago
That’s correct, and to my point above, driving immigration down to this degree required a level of violence and cruelty so extreme that even the people who voted for it now disapprove of it. And that’s before the profound economic consequen
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by mbgerring 3mo ago
> I don't even see people entertain it for the purposes of arguing against it. Luckily, we have several recent real-life examples demonstrating why “fewer people” is not a viable solution: Because you either need to forcibly remove
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by mbgerring 4mo ago
I’d bet that there won’t be a RAM shortage for very long.
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by mbgerring 4mo ago
There is no reason we should accept the enclosure of the digital commons represented by AI. The data these models are trained on amounts to the total intellectual and artistic output of human kind through recorded history. It belongs to all
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by mbgerring 4mo ago
About $2k in 2026 dollars and falling.
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by mbgerring 4mo ago
In general I agree with the 3D printing and open source community that bills like these are bad ideas. However, I want to ask this question in the spirit of helping craft better arguments: Given that it is extremely well known that most c
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by mbgerring 4mo ago
Don’t listen to the daily news == Don’t worry about the massive program of deprivation, destruction and death carried out on your behalf to secure the aforementioned “unprecedented wealth”
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by mbgerring 4mo ago
“All you have to do is have a good enough idea and someone will fund it!” This is a myth. To access capital, in Silicon Valley and anywhere else, you have to engage in elaborate court protocol and social climbing. You have to have the right
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by mbgerring 4mo ago
This is so stupid. You can’t “earn” a billion dollars doing the thing that the vast majority of people do for money, which is selling your labor. No one can argue with this. We all understand that if people who own a lot of capital give a l
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by mbgerring 4mo ago
I respect Moxie a lot and it greatly diminishes my opinion of him that he agreed to be part of this. I hope he got paid a lot for this, and that he’s plowing the money back into something worthwhile.
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by mbgerring 4mo ago
I've worked in clean energy for about a decade, building analytics software for DER providers (solar, batteries) and EV companies, and I build large-scale portable battery and solar systems as a hobby. I keep up with the industry and t
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by mbgerring 4mo ago
It’s true, and the strategy of climate activists in the early 2000s and 2010s was to do everything they could to make coal and other fossil fuels as expensive as possible: by reducing access to capital, increasing the cost of legal and regu
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by mbgerring 4mo ago
I work in clean energy, and whenever I read comments like those in this thread I realize there’s so much that I take for granted that is still relatively unknown outside my bubble. It's somehow still early innings for the energy transi
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by mbgerring 4mo ago
No, the clean energy industry is doing that, it’s a large and growing industry with billions of capital deployed and millions of people working hard across technology and policy to make it happen.
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by mbgerring 4mo ago
It’s primarily a regulatory issue, and more states in the US will approve it over the coming years.
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by mbgerring 4mo ago
China’s massive coal footprint is shrinking due to successful, intentional effort under the most recent five year plan, and coal’s presence in China’s power mix will likely continue to shrink, while China ramps up exports of clean energy te
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by mbgerring 4mo ago
It’s also from focused efforts to close coal plants, and rapid, massive deployment of solar in the last 20 years, and new technology emerging (better batteries and dispatch technologies) to make solar into a 24/7 resource. For whatever
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by mbgerring 4mo ago
The AI job crisis is large tech employers firing workers to free up cash for AI capex, and those workers competing with everyone else in a competitive job market. I’ve been unemployed and actively looking for a job for about 6 months, the l
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by mbgerring 4mo ago
It’s so economically valuable that smarter people than you decided it should be provided as a public good, to give everyone access to it regardless of ability to pay. We should do a lot more of this.
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by mbgerring 4mo ago
Can you think of any economically valuable reason why it might be important to know about weather trends or events in advance? Any at all?

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