mepiethree

there are so many places to read about what stratechery writes about. Why pay, if it will become like any other free column? Canceled my subscription.

The counterfactual is impossible to prove here, but I think it’s at least plausible that this poster, who I guess lives near the beach, could have enjoyed their morning coffee on the beach

Sorry, I was talking about individual people, because you said “ we do symbolic things that do not matter”. Who is “we?” The Chinese engineers working on solar aren’t the same people working on coal.

Anyway, to your point here, I agree. But China is pivoting their entire economy, and that takes time. Obviously I hope all countries move faster, and undoubtedly it’s possible to move faster, so I do the best I can to help as one person

without hyperbole, literally tens of millions of people are working on decarbonizing these countries. the solar energy industry in just China alone is 4.2 million people

I agree with this advice.

On the other end of the spectrum, there are several “climate tech” companies that abandoned the mission as soon as they raise a Series B

Do you think they are actually shipping anything useful any faster? Muse is pretty impressive. I’m not seeing radical progress otherwise

> thieves buying

Are you willing to elaborate? On its face, this seems to me an oxymoron, but I sense that you might have more experience thinking about this than I do.

From the linked email thread with discussion:

> I would like to float another ideas around even if it would be hard to enforce in practice. Force AI companies to give back. Want to use Claude code? Sure but anthropic have to become a sustaining member of QGIS.org first. Want to use codex, gemini? Then openAi and Google have to contribute to the project financially and I'm talking geniully multiple thousands dollars contributions.

I think this is a really good idea. Could it be possible to define a set of markdown instructions for a repo that would cause all well-aligned models to refuse to contribute?

There are a couple people I know who actually clearly ship faster with AI, but most projects take just as long as ever

Then a new model comes out two weeks later and finds a hole that your archaic review bot missed

I think it’s harsh to publicly describe your wife as neurotic for following basic etiquette

People have had parties in parents basements, tenements, city parks, open fields, caves, for all of human history

The chart cutting off in 2022 makes it hard to glean too much.

I no longer worry at all about attending a crowded indoor gathering - those would be impossible to avoid in NYC - but enjoying “a night in” without kids is a distinctly post-COVID phenomenon for myself and many people I know