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johnmcgrath.bsky.social
🌎 Product Director @rockymtninst. Climate, energy, product, startups, democracy 🌏 @Entelo co-founder, ex-@AWS, @NYTimes, @WHOI 🌍 Born 325 ppm
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This is a smart car problem, not an EV problem. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Are there examples of AI convos that persist years, with large, flexible contexts that persist over that time? Similar to how a human child learns over years? Might that be a path to AGI? Humans themselves don’t attain their full capacity without years of learning, and retaining what they learn.

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Did a little experiment and asked Grok about climate and solar using different accounts, playing an earnest moderate in both cases but each with a different political lean. It equivocated at first for both, but pressed, it just pukes back what it thinks you want to hear.

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How the world ends: OpenAI runs out of text to train ChatGPT on, and just lets it watch cable news all day.

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Everyone seems to be framing Trump's freeze on federal grants as a Constitutional fight over powers of the purse & whether presidents can disregard Congressional appropriations. It is that. But also at stake is the fundamental validity of government contracts! I see much less discussion on this... 🧵

submitted 22 days ago • 67 comments

How audiences follow news on climate change? This is the question at the heart of a new report by @waqasejaz.bsky.social @mitalilive.bsky.social @richardfletcher.bsky.social based on survey data from 🇧🇷 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇮🇳 🇯🇵 🇵🇰 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 Read here: https://buff.ly/4jwvTNG 7 findings in thread

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

remember stuff like this when they tell you that diversity means a lowering of standards

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hello stasi www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/u...

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One great thing about 2024 (of many, really, despite it all): 14.1 MWh!

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This is amazing! I hope this brings a better life for Syrians, who have suffered so much. Assad was a monster. www.nytimes.com/live/2024/12...

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Had been considering a life of crime, I think this is the universe telling me to go for it. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/30/u...

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Stranded assets are real. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Trump looking seasonal in court today, dressed as a pumpkin spiced latte.

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