"LinkedIn may have inadvertently created the ideal laboratory for AI writing. ... It’s the place where people strive to be the most anodyne versions of themselves, pleasant and inoffensive. Artificiality, in other words, is what everyone is expecting." 😆
An important result. AI agents are now competitive with human engineers on tough AI r&d tasks when given a time budget of less than 4 hours.
That boundary will only shift out.
Sets the terrain for faster acceleration.
t.co/kbUgxUxWdp
The good news is the "energy is prosperity" arguement works even better for renewables - especially in low-middle income countries!
Some good points. We need to learn the lessons, otherwise we are doomed to repeat them.
AGI: "All you wages are belong to us"
But really, this graph shows how AGI could boost output while slashing wages. The report makes the case for gov contingency planning. Maybe a good idea if they are racing to build it???? (see AGI Manhattan project)
If history's any guide, using the 2024 forecast actually makes this chart MORE conservative lol
You might like this recent paper. Mathematically proves what we all thought: reduction offsets can never achieve zero emissions, since total emissions must always equal or exceed the amount of offsets being traded.
Only actual CCS can work.
www.nber.org/papers/w33170
Lol that was expected:
"The passage of Recreational Marijuana Law led to an increase in the number of grocery store trips that involved “junk food”, as well as the amount of respective “junk food” spending. This effect is particularly driven by an increase in snacks, cookies, and candy"
Among the many annoying things about TX is their closing off free access to their API.
This is not the case on Bluesky. Here is a visualization of the network of all of Bluesky's users. joelgustafson.com/posts/2024-1...
How much of this is due to the macro-funding environment? or do you think something specific has changed in CDR?
30% of the world's electricity came from renewable sources in 2023, according to Ember (which is pretty solid as a data source). With wind and solar driving the steady rising trend since 2010.
ourworldindata.org/data-insight...
people think our current information environment is uniquely poisonous because of social media but idk I'm old enough to remember when the highest rated daytime talk show was telling people there were networks of satanists sacrificing thousands of children a year.
What is a practical path for the Europe Commission to be more connected to the people? Citizen assemblies?
FT headline: Italian troops deployed against wild boar to defend ham industry
How to finance the energy transition?
Well... the solution seems to be staring us right in the face. #energy #climate
on.ft.com/44yoJBl
After the introduction of the GDPR, companies in the EU reduced their data storage by 26% and data processing by 15% compared to similar companies in the US.
www.nber.org/papers/w32146
