Yesterday afternoon, heads of state at #COP30 adopted Brazil's Declaration on the Open Coalition on Compliance Carbon Markets, directly informed by our coalition modeling work.
https://t.co/NrBrBpWv0D 1/
Our report on Climate Coalitions went live this AM. The proposal is straightforward: Countries coordinate carbon pricing for steel, aluminum, cement, & fertilizers. Members commit to minimum carbon prices and apply border adjustments on non-members. 🧵 1/
https://t.co/3LBMO0dbN3
@John011235@bellis1000 Wdym? Have I looked for an arbitrary write? Yeah I have and the writeup ends with me talking about where I left it (with the thought that other people would wanna look into it).
New research: most previous work showing that YouTube, TikTok etc. recommend increasingly extreme content is junk 😐
These "audits" simulated users clicking randomly. But that vastly overestimates rabbit hole effects, because most users aren't extreme.
https://t.co/QBByt269Bx
The Betterness Explosion - Just came across this argument by @robinhanson which predates mine on the incoherence of the idea of "superintelligence." https://t.co/ZDZxmJjuLQ
We were so happy to host Daniel Dennett @danieldennett as the inaugural Distinguished Lecturer at the Johns Hopkins Natural Philosophy Forum. Here is his full talk, "How, When, and Why Can We Trust Our Brains?"
https://t.co/0ObbUN13Ja
Did you know, that you can build a virtual machine inside ChatGPT? And that you can use this machine to create files, program and even browse the internet? https://t.co/15IwHwr2on
Could a new currency help avert the climate crisis? Part 1 of our 2-parter on carbon currency out this morning.
w/ the amazing Suzi Kerr (@KerrSuzi), Bill English, Sam Kortum, Vanessa Fajans-Turner (@vfajans), Frank Van Gansbeke, and Diana Cárdenas.
https://t.co/XCp3Pphsd2
June Huh, who was awarded the Fields Medal this morning, took an unconventional path into the world of mathematics. I had the privilege of profiling him for @QuantaMagazine: https://t.co/GJWKeSKFXs
@fins0905 This forced line: Nxc8, Rexc8, Bf5, Rc7 (not allowing ne5 to come with the threat of Nd7 forking the B rook and the queen), Bg4 (after g4 there’s Ne7), Ne7, Bxh5, g6, Bg4, h5, Bxh5, and white wins a pawn, shatters blacks kingside and coordination.
Our article on small firms and the pandemic was published in the Journal of Development Economics. I’m so proud & grateful to have worked with @mariaelenaguer@john_eric@ChrisANeilson and @GUlyssea.
A short 🧵 on our most important findings, and what I learned in the process.
I can't praise this book enough. Gripping, hard-SF near-future story but much more. Deserves to be an epoch-making event. Can't say more without spoilers.
She likes her food "as G❤d made it".
Scarce, uncooked, and tainted with pathogens?
G❤d made *her* creative, innovative and capable of unbounded, peaceful progress.