Favorites April 11th 2023

Mountain View, September 2022

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This graph is why energy abundance is a real possibility for the near future.

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Speaking of abundant energy, shutting down nuclear plants at this point is foolish. When you talk about environmental damage, it's worth seeing the what the scale looks like where Germany is swallowing whole towns for low grade coal.

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It's worth noting that China is catching up in total spending, and other countries are significantly out-spending us as a percent of GDP.

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I'm gonna be honest, I don't exactly understand how this would work, but uh... wild. Here’s the paper. Gotta get Spock out there to talk to the wales.

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Threads

• Really great thread about how the success of OpenAI is good evidence that the US government should consider funding Focused Research Organizations, which work on "well-defined challenges that require scale and coordination but that are not immediately profitable."

• A short thread explaining why Mountain View YIMBY is supporting the city's proposed housing element. TL;DR: they made the revisions requested by YIMBY and other housing advocacy orgs. (disclosure: I'm a lead of MV YIMBY).