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Casey’s writing on solar power has transformed the way I look at at power related problems… when you realize we have an unlimited amount of power raining from the sky (that we can capture) then it changes the economics of problems. Cheap and power inefficient becomes the play of the day. The advent of cheap…
It was always clear that drones were not going to be weapons of the powerful. What matters for weapons systems is who can afford them. If you need aircraft carriers and you’re not a major country, you’re shit outta luck. The end of medieval nobility arrived with gunpowder weapons, specifically cannons. King could afford them,…
A really great summation of some of the leading ideas from the past week or so. I suggest subbing to Arnolds newsletter. The Zvi on problems with LLMs; Ethan Mollick on impact of LLMs; Noah Smith on techno-optimism; Bill Gates on same; Sergey Levine and Karol Hausman on robots; Venkatesh Rao draws a map https://arnoldkling.substack.com/p/llm-links-383
I truely believe that RISC-V is in the process of turning the computing world on it’s head… the combo of open source design and easily grokkable instruction set is a killer combo. I grew up with ARM processors (I had an Acorn 410 as a kid and a BBC B before that), but I do…
If we are serious about the economy, building a better future, we need to own up, acknowledge and address division. Division is economically and socially corrosive. The battles include young vs old, homeowner vs those aspiring, haves vs have-nots, landlord vs renter, rural vs urban, Māori vs non-Māori, respect/disrespect for the law and business owners…
America is a naval empire. It, like the old British empire, rests on being able to keep the shipping lines open and on using naval power (and air power) to hurt nations while those nations can’t fight back. In the 19th century the Brits would park ironclads off the coast and just pound cities, and…
In New Zealand it’s the TPU (all their astro-turf-one-person-PR-pimping sock puppets)…
Getting to town planning and Ballardian milieus this quickly is unusual. Crypto for example, despite being 4 years older (the Satoshi Moment was 2008) seems to have been stuck in a late Settler/Lovecraftian phase for the last few years. It is struggling to switch gears to town planning and Ballardian banality. https://studio.ribbonfarm.com/p/a-map-for-ai-town-planners-2024-29
In forming the new Government, the National Party forged alliances with smaller, more extreme parties intent on amplifying their power, entering dangerous territory. With its immoderate attacks on the media, te reo, women and the environment, New Zealand First plays upon ethnic, gender and rural-urban polarities to increase its influence far beyond its 6 percent…
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