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Yeah, but can they out-perform LLMs at soft skills? LLMs are really good sucking up, and telling people what they want to hear.

It seems like the traditional way to develop good judgement is by getting experience with hands-on coding. If that is all automated, how will people get the experience to have good…

So long as they have coal power plants, and need the electricity unless it get prohibitively expensive, they will just mine more coal. The way to reduce emissions is to replace hig…

There are about 37 billion tons of CO2 emissions per year. If you could get the price down to $100/ton, you can get the world net zero for $3.7t/year. US GDP is 25 trillion/year. W…

The article provides no historical context. Startups are risky and fail all the time. Are more startups than normal failing? How many startups can cut back and survive without more…

Once you've found product-market fit, what prevents a competitor with better tooling from copying you and out-competing?

I've used GPT4, and never got it really do anything useful.

Self-driving cars haven't really failed. It looks like Cruise and Waymo are about to get permissions to operate 24/7 in SF. I think the greater issue is that it is difficult to ass…

Do we just need better regulators? We could increase pay and hire larger regulatory staffs to move faster. It seems to work for Singapore.

It looks like it'll be competition for phony experts and politicians. I think it is easier to improve AI algorithms than deal human with human liars.

Are modern colleges actually succeeding: 1) Exposing people to depth of thought 2) Teach people how to think Maybe, at one time they did, and maybe some schools still do, but it do…

Where has the least polluted air? Is there a map?

Could we get the US Army Corps of Engineers to manage transit projects?

We have the army corps of engineers, which maintains a lot of the dams. We could expand from there.

Is the trained model available to download anywhere?

While a mortal computer could work for some stuff, how are you going to train it? It seems like each computer would need to be trained on a large training set, which is going to be…

Those things may require government investment, but if there is going to be a lot of investment in those things then it becomes worth it to figure out how to do those things more e…

If there are going to big investments in nuclear, then it'd make sense to invest in R&D to improve nuclear power. The same goes for any other renewable energy technology.

Is code available?

That would be the same as curating social media feeds.

Isn't a lot of legal language intentionally written to be hard to understand? Doesn't that drive up billing hours for lawyers, and benefit those with the most lawyers? Could we hav…

Can Columbia students sue the school for being defrauded on what they were buying?

There is a community at https://workonclimate.org/ focused on helping people find jobs related to climate. You can also look at https://climatevoice.org/ , and look at how your emp…