
Nick Georgis
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Nick Georgis
@ledooze
Love golf, my friends, dogs, hiking, trees/gardens, wine, mostly whole foods, exercise as medicine, lifelong learner, music, creating value at work, now retired










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The US winter wheat crop is going to be terrible. We're past the point of no return for much of the acreage. South Dakota saw the most deterioration this week, while Nebraska and Colorado currently have the worst crop conditions.



We might be heading towards a populist backlash towards AI, but we're not there yet. Outside the tech bubble, Americans really don't care about AI yet. AI is Americans' 29th most important issue, according to the fantastic survey @davidshor ran that everyone is rightly looking at. It's not surprising that Americans will answer sentiment questions about AI negatively, as they've been negative towards tech for a while. But it's a big leap from negative sentiment to meaningful political action. Americans have been negative on social media for 10 years, and there has been no meaningful political action. And that's despite all the other hallmarks of backlash people are saying about AI---violent extremists (people forget there was a shooting at YouTube HQ), protests, etc. My prediction: we will get real populist backlash to AI when the unemployment moves by, say, 2 percentage points and people see it as caused by AI. That might happen quite soon. So it's good that people are already thinking about this issue and where it might lead (esp @jasminewsun whose recent writing on this has been incredible). When the populist backlash does occur, people will be searching around for policies, and if we're lucky and smart, we'll have a library of potential good ideas ready to deploy. Because otherwise, we'll get horrible ideas like data center moratoria instead. I'll be writing more about this for my piece on the poltical economy of AGI next week!



The US Department of Defense is funding a gallium refinery at Alcoa's Wagerup plant in Western Australia, through a trilateral effort with Australia and Japan. Capacity: 100 tonnes per year. The US consumed 21 tonnes of gallium in 2024. They're building 5x current demand because gallium nitride is the semiconductor material for power electronics — EV inverters, grid converters, data center power supplies. The gallium was always in the bauxite. It was just discarded during alumina refining. frontiermap.substack.com/publish/post/1…


Why are people so bothered by an airline cutting snack service on 30-60 min flights? It’s so insanely wasteful to give out a can/cup/snack x 150 people for a flight that short.


Since starting Reta I’ve become much more compassionate to obese people. I fell into the trap previously of “they are lazy and should learn to work out and have discipline like me”. Reta showed me that even I have compulsive thoughts beyond my control that caused me to want to snack. And i had a 4-pack prior to Reta (6 pack with good lighting lol). I can only imagine how much the innate thought patterns in obese people must affect their ability to cut calories. I am now able to see beyond people’s fat, and envision a life for them where they have shed the weight. Allowing their jawlines to show and their joints to have less of a burden. Insulin sensitivity improved. A clear mind. So much more. If dosing is managed appropriately and someone doesn’t have a contraindication…these are miracle drugs. Check with your doctor.






