

Here's a short thread on the implications of this public exchange between the US and China. TL;DR: it would be very bad for the world if China begins providing significant military aid to Russia. Happily, China continues to loudly state that Russia shouldn't use WMDs in any way against Ukraine.



This seems like a great policy! The environmental benefits of green energy are so self-evident at this point that it makes sense to use a simple checklist instead of a full review.


Combining the two products is useful because the risks cancel out, people who live long enough to make the annuity unprofitable don't generally also need long term care. If no insurer wants to offer this product, it seems like a good opportunity for government involvement...
Threads
• Informative thread about what it actually takes to deploy large numbers of street trees. TL;DR: it's a lot harder than just planting them, water is tricky but the hardest part is that the ground under roads has been compacted too much for tree roots to be viable.
• If you've been following the wild stuff going on with Bing's new LLM-based chat system, you may be interested in this pair of posts speculating about why Bing's system sometimes goes totally off the rails, causing them to add more guardrails recently (not entirely successfully). TL;DR: Microsoft may have skipped reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) in training, some people are displeased that Microsoft isn't taking this seriously.
• Thread explaining why "Buy American" provisions make Biden's infrastructure plans way less effective. TL;DR: US infrastructure spending isn't actually large enough to spur competition resulting in price pressure, Japan and Europe are our friends, we should buy the things they're better at making than us.