🇺🇸 John McGrath 🌎

🌎 Product Director @rockymtninst. Climate, energy, product, startups, democracy 🌏 @Entelo co-founder, ex-@AWS, @NYTimes, @WHOI 🌍 Born 325 ppm

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@mattmireles @uncertainLucas @NWischoff @madhavjha Matt!

You can make it work, and without being rich. Got two kids in SFUSD--daughter just graduated from SOTA and heading to a great school, son in Lowell and doing great. Maybe not as easy as in the burbs but kids gain a lot, growing up in a fascinating and beautiful place.

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@SpencrGreenberg Wish "who the fuck knows" was an option.

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@pitdesi What I said! https://t.co/xYhp67BrpC

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Nancy Pelosi is awesome, but wrong: Connie Chan sucks. Opposed Sunset Dunes. Lame on JFK Drive. When I hear her speak (she's my Supe), she says... nothing. Except when talking about cops, who she clearly hates

I'm a @Scott_Wiener man, myself. He delivers

https://t.co/6WMeE43Jsk

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@claud334 @MikeIsaac @deedydas People conflate startups and big tech. Did both--startup ate my life, everyone's looking for the big score. Big tech was like summer camp in comparison.

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@MikeIsaac @deedydas It's super fucked up, but super common here as you well know.

I'm grateful for my early experience as a slacker, which has prepared me well for this moment. I'd rather be defined by my record collection than my job.

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@ZaidJilani Possibly too honest.

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Nancy Pelosi is awesome, but wrong: Connie Chan sucks. Opposed Sunset Dunes. Lame on JFK Drive. When I hear her speak (she's my Supe), she says... nothing. Except when talking about cops, who she clearly hates

I'm a @Scott_Wiener man, myself. He delivers

https://t.co/6WMeE43Jsk

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@GenHeres123 @Noahpinion Suleyman is wrong. The limit isn't how fast AI moves, it's how fast companies move, which in almost all cases is, not very.

But automating all white collar jobs is going to make people poor. I'm not hearing these guys follow up with "but Microsoft will be happy to support UBI."

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@Jediwolf @frankie_high @SHL0MS Me neither. Humans are hugely suggestible, myself included. And monitors suck--that's part of what peple were really critiquing. @0xmarceleth got it

And context matters! Reminds me of Joshua Bell busking in the DC subway, he barely made enough for lunch. https://t.co/YUQs90e094

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@PeterOlivier @anliakho @paulg I'm all for getting rich, but worth noting that an evil rich person can do a heck of a lot more damage than an evil poor.

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@paulg This is a big part of why MIT's Building 20 was so productive. It was kind of a shithole (it was supposed to be temporary), so people felt free to run wires, move walls, and do whatever they needed to get things done. You could hack it.

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@Anish__B @wolfiesch @Noahpinion This question was my immediate thought as well.

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@AndyMasley Brother I feel you. For me it's other stuff, but I can't stop making things. I kind of presume I will eventually, but 🤷

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@andrewchen It's not so black and white. I just accept most of it, skim some of it, and when it's dealing with something that's critical to core logic, it's not so much I review as I read and fucking understand it.

But mostly I just accept it :-)

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Sunset friends, vote @alankennywong for district 4 supervisor! Help San Francisco continue on our upward trend. https://t.co/1ziAlKgVSx

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@Noahpinion @ramez AI aside, the idea that ideas get harder to find is not borne out by history.

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@Noahpinion This is part of the answer to Nate Silver's "it's really hard to know what comes after Trump."

https://t.co/hQWhnlE1vy

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@rhennigantx @QuincyEdmundLee No longer true. Batteries with grid forming inverters provide synthetic inertia and fast frequency response, and do so more quickly than thermal plants.

These are in use in CA, ERCOT, Australia, and probably many more places at this point.

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And the inverse... https://t.co/rtrzygzMbm

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Hypothesis: tons of people, until this week, thought AI and ChatGPT were the same thing, and had never heard of Anthropic. Now they have, and it's the “safe AI company.”

Bet they’re seeing a big bump in consumer adoption from that, even above their already nuts growth rate.

[Scott Alexander @slatestarcodex]

I cannot wait until the White House changes hands and all of you ghouls switch back from "you're a traitor unless you bootlick so hard your tongue goes numb" to "the government asking any questions about my offshore fentanyl casino is vile tyranny and I will throw myself in the San Francisco Bay in protest", like werewolves at the last ray of the setting moon.