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Say what you will about Late Capital, at least it’s given us rustic urban chic
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Ben Underwood
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Ben Underwood
@Benunde
Co-founder and Co-CEO of @resonant_energy | distance over speed | (i/dec)
Boston, MA Katılım Ocak 2011
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As evidenced by the unbridled promotion and implementation of technology at the expense of human dignity, we are truly experiencing an eclipse of the sense of what it means to be human. It is imperative to recover an understanding of the true meaning and grandeur of humanity as intended by God. It is in this sense that the challenge we currently face is not technological, but anthropological, and it is my hope that the Encyclical Letter to be published within a few days will contribute to answering this challenge.
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@magdajtaylor @delia_cai That’s why they call it “strolling”
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walking around outside is like scrolling with your body
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They’re calling it “strolling”
Magdalene J. Taylor@magdajtaylor
walking around outside is like scrolling with your body
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@rando_scrolling @robinsonmeyer @nytopinion Right, so the cost of residential electricity has increased faster than CPI
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It’s the age of electricity and America isn’t ready.
Virtually every goal that Americans care about requires big changes to the power grid. I’m in @nytopinion today on why power bills are going up, whether AI is to blame, & what we need to do about it:
nytimes.com/interactive/20…
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@officialmattsny @Sportsandgamin1 @dasanil @grok Hm, but 72 / 72% return implies it would double every 1 year, which should be a 100% annual return instead?
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@Sportsandgamin1 @dasanil @grok 72 divided by the expected annual return = how long it takes the investment to double.
So in this case 72/10=7ish
So that dollar doubles every 7 years.
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This may explain why @pmarca’s head just keeps getting bigger and bigger: Information goes in, but has no way to get out.
David Senra@davidsenra
Great men of history had little to no introspection. The personality that builds empires is not the same personality that sits around quietly questioning itself. @pmarca and I discuss what we both noticed but no one talks about: David: You don't have any levels of introspection? Marc: Yes, zero. As little as possible. David: Why? Marc: Move forward. Go! I found people who dwell in the past get stuck in the past. It's a real problem and it's a problem at work and it's a problem at home. David: So I've read 400 biographies of history’s greatest entrepreneurs and someone asked me what the most surprising thing I’ve learned from this was [and I answered] they have little or zero introspection. Sam Walton didn't wake up thinking about his internal self. He just woke up and was like: I like building Walmart. I'm going to keep building Walmart. I'm going to make more Walmarts. And he just kept doing it over and over again. Marc: If you go back 400 years ago it never would've occurred to anybody to be introspective. All of the modern conceptions around introspection and therapy, and all the things that kind of result from that are, a kind of a manufacture of the 1910s, 1920s. Great men of history didn't sit around doing this stuff. The individual runs and does all these things and builds things and builds empires and builds companies and builds technology. And then this kind of this kind of guilt based whammy kind of showed up from Europe. A lot of it from Vienna in 1910, 1920s, Freud and all that entire movement. And kind of turned all that inward and basically said, okay, now we need to basically second guess the individual. We need to criticize the individual. The individual needs to self criticize. The individual needs to feel guilt, needs to look backwards, needs to dwell in the past. It never resonated with me.
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I've plotted the most expensive McDonald's burger and the least expensive MacBook over time. This analysis projects that the most expensive burger will be more expensive than the cheapest laptop as soon as 2081
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The web is losing its dialects. Mass-produced LLM text is a beige fog rolling over a once-fractured vista.
If we do not resist its homogenizing drift, the future of online discourse will not be noisy or chaotic or dangerous—it will be uniformly, impeccably, forgettably the same.
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Mass-produced LLM text is not a harmless drafting assistant.
It is flattening the topography of the internet.
It is smoothing every idiosyncrasy into median tone.
It is converting lived experience into statistically probable phrasing.
Ethan Mollick@emollick
[[Topic of discussion]] is not [[analogy]]. [[Dramatic fact given own line]]. [[Dramatic fact given own line]]. [[Dramatic fact given own line]]. [[Dramatic summary sentence.]] [[Topic of discussion]] is [[different analogy]]. [[Implications delivered with certainty]].
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@thomasforth Crazy that was less than three years ago. Feels like that phrase has been around forever.
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I always enjoy remembering who coined the phrase, and how.
Dr Jordan B Peterson@jordanbpeterson
There are cathedrals everywhere for those with the eyes to see
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Can someone else confirm this for me, or am I finally losing it: Instagram automatically turns up the brightness of your phone screen when you scroll over an ad?
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@bhalligan I’d love to attend and speak to my experience building @Resonant_Energy and the climate investment opportunity in Boston
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I’m organizing a session w the Governor at my home in Boston. Who should be there? I think she ought to hear from the next generation of folks in tech building here, mostly founders.
Brian Halligan@bhalligan
I’m starting to worry about Massachusetts 1. Biotech is way off from a few years ago 2. Only 1 of the top 50 ai companies are in MA 3. The Fed research funding cuts hitting MIT, Harvard, Whoi are brutal. 4. The millionaires tax is working in the short run, but I know a lot of wealthy folks preparing for a FL move. 5. A glut of empty condos 6. It’s not “cool” for young folks 7. It’s expensive as sh-t. I honestly don’t think the MA/Boston govt can do that much about it as they are kind of macro issues. I give them big credit for working on building more housing and fixing the T, which will help. I’m trying to help w HubSpot, partnering w WHOI, teaching at MIT. I’d like to help more. Specifically I’d like to encourage and help more ai and climate companies in the state. I think ai and climate should be our dual growth engines.
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Imagine you own a paid-off heavy-duty pickup truck that gets 12 MPG. You decide to buy an e-bike for your daily commute.
The critic: "That's wasteful! Now you have to maintain two vehicles instead of one."
Reality: you keep the truck for heavy lifting (reliability), but use the bike for 90% of trips (cheap energy). Even with "two systems," your total costs drop because you stop burning ~$100/week in gas.
Alex Trembath@atrembath
“We’re running a two system grid: one to harvest cheap variable energy and another to guarantee reliability. Two systems cost more than one.”
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Which begs the question: How much higher would our bills be today if we had not avoided grid infrastructure upgrades by making EE and DER investments ten or twenty years ago?
Xiao Wang@xiaowang1984
Of course the real world is more complicated in that if you spend in efficiency you also can defer future upgrades. The fairy may not be able to do much about costs already incurred but it can definitely reduce future investment
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One of the largest U.S. data centers will be the Stargate project in Abilene, TX.
It will span 4 million sq. feet with top-of-the-line compute to advance AI innovation.
It will also feature 29 natural gas turbines on-site, providing more than 1 gigawatt of reliable power.
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@ShanuMathew93 Nothing will stop the nuclear movement faster than another meltdown
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BBG didn't really hold back on this one. Worth a read.
“All these nuke bros who know nothing about operating a reactor, they just want a free pass,” says Allison Macfarlane, former chairman of the NRC.
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@KevinSKrause @lrntex @EnergyLawProf Good point. I’m interested to investigate the long term effects — say that NEM contributed $0.02/kWh to ratepayer cost growth over the past 10 years, but supported 3 GW of peak demand reduction from DERs — what would grid upgrades to supply the same demand have cost ratepayers?
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@Benunde @lrntex @EnergyLawProf It may over time, but the instantaneous effect is for rates to go up. Same distribution system, sunk costs, not downsized, being paid for by less volume actually increases rates in the ST. Less stress on the system, smaller capacity replacements may result in lower LT costs.
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GREAT NEWS!! No one will ever have to argue over which electricity generation sources are cheapest again because I have revealed some ***important nuances*** about electricity prices. (THREAD)
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