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Since the publication of www.offgridai.us last month, I’ve been looking into the financials of clean energy projects. In the US, tax credits play a key role in bringing down the br…

You are absolutely correct. The fact that this statement is made by a website holding itself out as an educational source is very disappointing. Ultralight vehicles meeting these r…

In my corner of the world/philanthropy discussion, I'd consider GiveWell one of the most well-known organizations and with a reputation of high quality, thorough research. In terms…

Th article does cover these. For #1, see the section headed "The risk of non-payment". Prior to the mortgages going into the pool, insurance against default is purchased from a GSE…

These experiences are interesting, but I think Annapurna might not be the right benchmark to evaluate against. One of the least climbed and most deadly mountains on Earth seems rat…

Can you elaborate on the current ML/AI work and the specific goals? I can think of a few cool use cases, but curious what all is being looked at. What organization do you mean by "…

I volunteered yesterday after seeing this article. To be clear, this is a very early expression of interest and there is no specific human challenge trial which is ready to begin a…

I don't think this is a fair interpretation of the poster above or Duflo & Banerjee's work. It is an unfortunate, but nevertheless true, statement that in the world today, we don't…

WeWork never achieving profitability does seem entirely possible, maybe even the most likely outcome. However, I'm not sure that leads to the conclusion that it will crush their la…