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Freelance climate and energy analyst in Oslo, writing on Europe, the US and Australia; worked in the Australian renewables industry before that.

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  Claims that AI will be a net benefit for the climate lack strong supporting evidence.

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  we explore and contest all these claims, which we contend are not supported by strong evidence.

  NVIDIA’S AI Climate hoax – reportketanjoshi.co

Founder of Trilogy Software and principal of Alpha School, the private school network built around two hours a day of AI-delivered mastery learning.

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  Children develop by struggling and failing on the road to success while a caring adult supports them, and school should be running that loop all day instead of leaving it to after-school sports.

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  The key to developing a child is that they struggle and fail on their road to success supported by a caring adult. And you just want to run that loop.

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Demographer; writes on fertility, marriage and population, and directs the Pro-Family Initiative at the Institute for Family Studies.

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  The theory that birth rates fall because home life has not caught up with women's opportunities at work is not supported by the data.

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  within societies, more gender-egalitarian people almost never have more kids than less gender-egalitarian people, and in a panel model, changes in the mismatch rate have no relationship to fertility

  We Actually Know A Lot About Fertility Declinelymanstone.substack.com

Co-founder and CEO of Snap Inc., the company behind Snapchat, which he started in 2011 while studying product design at Stanford.

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  Listing out your jobs to be done is how a company brings order to AI, because it shows exactly where an agent belongs and what it should improve.

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  by listing out all these jobs to be done, you know, really for the for the community journey and for advertisers as well, it became very clear where we could use agents, where we needed to be very focused in terms of building cross-functional teams around those jobs supported by AI tools.

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Software developer and entrepreneur; co-founder of Heroku, author of The Twelve-Factor App, and a researcher at Ink & Switch.

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  Building third-party clients for messaging platforms is a legal gray area and often only partially supported by their APIs

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  building a third-party client to read and route messages is a gray area in their terms of service, and perhaps only partially supported in their API surfaces.

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Professor of international affairs at Johns Hopkins SAIS and co-author, with Abraham Newman, of Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy.

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  The Concept of Representation

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  But they are in part supported by one of the great books of modern political theory, Hanna Pitkin’s The Concept of Representation

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Professor at Carnegie Mellon working on self-driving-car safety; writes Safe Autonomy on how autonomous vehicles are and are not shown to be safe.

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  Nobody has driven enough miles to show that robotaxis save lives, so the claim that they already do is not supported by the data.

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  But their latest study is for only 7.1 million miles. They need something like 40 times more data prove they are actually saving lives with statistical confidence (likely even more).

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Writes The Convivial Society, on technology and the moral life — what our tools do to attention, memory and how we treat each other.

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  A good life rests on things that demand skill and effort from you, not on goods that arrive requiring none.

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  A good life is supported by a diverse array of focal things and practices, which tend to reward us with deeper, more meaningful experiences; a gratifying measure of bodily skill and competence; and possibly even a stronger fabric of relationships.

  The Stuff of (a Well-Lived) Lifetheconvivialsociety.substack.com

Brazilian-American staff software engineer working on platforms, AI and developer productivity. Writes about engineering and his setup at ivansantos.me.

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  1Password

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  1Password is my password manager of choice. I've been using it for years and that's usually the first app I install in any new supported device.

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Pseudonymous writer; posts careful, funny investigations of everyday questions — air quality, seed oils, arguing, chess — usually by reading the studies.

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  Practising gratitude is a scientifically well-supported way to make yourself happier.

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  That hokey unfashionable techniques like practicing gratitude turn out to have strong scientific evidence behind them

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  I was wrong about gratitude. I thought it was a guaranteed way to become happier