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Noah Smith
Korrent
High per-capita energy consumption is necessary for an economy to escape poverty.
It’s a simple truth that if you want your economy to escape poverty, you need lots of energy consumption
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Hannah Ritchie
Korrent
Desalination for drinking and household water is cheap and uses less energy than commonly assumed.
Supplying drinking and household water through desalination is really quite cheap, and uses far less energy than I’d have guessed.
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Alex Tabarrok
Loved
Energy Transitions in Regulated Markets — Gautam Gowrisankaran, Ashley Langer and Mar Reguant
Gowrisankaran, Langer and Reguant have an excellent paper, Energy Transitions in Regulated Markets
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François Chollet
Korrent
The case for building AGI has always been framed around invention, such as curing cancer or solving fusion energy.
The narrative around why building AGI was a good idea has always been about invention -- "it will cure cancer", "it will solve fusion energy", etc.
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Joe Previte
x.com
alright i have 2–3 spots left for a free 2-week energy experiment details: - no calls, just text check-ins - one new habit each week - text check-ins “The biggest value wasn’t the advice itself, it was the…
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Terence Eden
Bluesky
Electricity prices in the UK are negative for the next few hours. Thanks to all the green energy being generated. I built a little home display using an obsolete Android tablet. Lets me know when I'm getting paid to…
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Tim Urban
x.com
The explosion came from 2/3 of a gram of matter being converted to energy. About the mass of a paperclip.
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Elon Musk
Korrent
Sustainable energy alone will not save humanity from extinction events; temperature-controlling satellites and large-scale geo-engineering will be needed.
Extremely severe extinction events happen every 100M years or so and just switching to sustainable energy will not be enough to stop them. Space satellites to control temperature and massive geo-engineering will be…
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Arvid Kahl
x.com
Some founders are responding with a sensational amount of grifter energy to the whole bidding website hype. This will ultimately backfire spectacularly.
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Richard Stallman
Mastodon
…"Expensive electricity is killing British industry" - but subsidizing energy made from fossil fuels is killing civilization. The UK government should look for a way to subsidize the customers for energy, but not…
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Sean Carroll
YouTube
Solo: Theories of Dark Energy | Mindscape 359
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Thomas Ptacek
Korrent
Data centre opposition only pushes construction to the parts of America that regulate energy and pollution least.
…center construction to the (many) places in America that won't regulate energy or pollution. Weird thing to pat oneself on the back…
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Ursula von der Leyen
x.com
We’re deepening our cooperation across the board. Connectivity, clean energy, critical raw materials. And of course, more opportunities for the people of Greenland. We’re backing these ambitions with a €200 million…
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Sanjay Bakshi
x.com
…if any, on government policy incentives, etc. There have been so many solar energy and wind energy bubbles in the past, and I have kept away from these companies. Am I being too…
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Brad DeLong
Newsletter
How Special Is Programming as a Token-Infall Attractor?: CHART OF THE DAY
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Sean Carroll
YouTube
Solo: Vacuum Energy and the Cosmological Constant | Mindscape 358
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Hannah Ritchie
Korrent
Britain has a systemic problem building large infrastructure projects, including reservoirs
I think Britain has a real problem with building almost anything, from train lines to houses, and reservoirs to energy infrastructure.
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Adam Grant
x.com
…a respite doesn't compromise effort. It resets attention and recharges…
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Noah Smith
Korrent
Solar power combined with batteries has surpassed nuclear power as the superior energy technology for most uses.
Because solar has, broadly speaking, won the technological race. Intermittency was the last big problem, and batteries have gotten good and cheap enough to make solar reliable.
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François Chollet
x.com
…always been about invention -- "it will cure cancer", "it will solve fusion energy", etc. So I would not "declare AGI" until we have AI that is, at last, capable of invention -- conceptual breakthroughs, novel…
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Lex Fridman
Podcast
#497 – Biggest Mysteries in Physics: Antimatter, Dark Energy & ToE – Don Lincoln
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Scott H Young
x.com
New Course Everyday Energy is now available! https://t.co/kxOmaOsSAC Better energy. Smarter effort. Less burnout. This course helps you understand how energy works so you can stay productive without feeling constantly…
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Lex Fridman
YouTube
Biggest Mysteries in Physics: Antimatter, Dark Energy & ToE - Don Lincoln | Lex Fridman Podcast #497
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Julie Zhuo
x.com
Had the pleasure of chatting at @spc Bangalore. So many great builders and electric energy in the garden city. Never been a better time to be an entrepreneur and build what you believe the world needs.
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Keir Starmer
x.com
Gutted. Tonight wasn’t the result we all hoped for, but this England team has given it their all. The passion and energy they’ve shown representing the badge has made us all proud.
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Hannah Ritchie
Newsletter
Does that use a lot of energy? [Update]
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Joe Previte
x.com
sometimes the best way to fix your energy is to run an A/B test 1. identify the problem 2. pick 1 factor to change 3. test for one week & take notes you gotta image you're the PM, eng and data scientist and the product…
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Deb Perelman
Blog
spaghetti aglio e olio
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Kevin Kelly
YouTube
BCS: Ramez Naam on Energy
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Hannah Ritchie
Korrent
Vertical farming swaps a land problem for an energy problem, and the energy cost is what stops it feeding the world.
What stands in the way is energy demand. Growing crops indoors is energy-intensive. So we’re really swapping a land problem for an energy one.
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Dax Raad
Korrent
AI moved him from spending 95 per cent of his energy on deciding what to do to spending 96 per cent — a 20 per cent improvement that feels like no change at all.
the joke I made was pre AI, I would spend 95% of my energy thinking about what to do and 5% of my energy doing it. Now I spend 96% of my time thinking about what to do and 4% of my time actually doing it. So yeah, it's…
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David Heinemeier Hansson
Korrent
Omarchy is a system for professional computer lovers: it optimises usability over learnability, and a couple of days learning the keyboard is a fair price.
…of professional computer lovers. People who are willing to invest time and energy into learning how their system works, and reap the benefits that come from that…
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Joe Previte
x.com
…your all-hands call on a walk remind yourself you're doing it to have more energy to be more focused to be more present with your family to live a more enjoyable life whatever it may…
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Andrew Kelley
Site
My Thoughts on the Bun Rust Rewrite
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Joe Previte
x.com
…with your family because your mind will be sharper and you'll have more energy the sooner you realize this, the sooner you'll motivation shows up on its…
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Scott H Young
x.com
New Free Lessons: Lesson One: The Human Energy Crisis https://t.co/rVWy6rrYG2 It’s easy to blame ourselves when we feel low energy, but I’m starting to think the problem is larger than that. This post looks at what…
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Hannah Ritchie
Newsletter
How much electricity does AI consume? [2025 summary]
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Tynan Sylvester
x.com
I got interviewed in Korea! Loved his energy
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Bryan Johnson
x.com
…cognition > protect arteries > preserve organs > powers deep sleep > stable energy What to do: 1) fast 14-16 hrs daily 2) build muscle with heavy lifting 3) walk after eating or air squats every 45 min 4) no added…
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Hannah Ritchie
Korrent
Tariffs on Chinese clean energy reduce the total number of clean-energy jobs, because most of those jobs are in deployment rather than manufacturing.
That’s because most clean energy jobs are in deployment and maintenance rather than manufacturing, and since higher costs slow down the rollout of renewables, increasing prices reduces the total number of people working…
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Sabine Hossenfelder
x.com
…that all their thousands of nonsense theories for dark matter and dark energy and the origin of the universe etc are "extraordinary claims" without any "extraordinary evidence" and they should never have appeared…
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Lex Fridman
Podcast
#485 – David Kirtley: Nuclear Fusion, Plasma Physics, and the Future of Energy
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Hannah Ritchie
Korrent
Cheap clean energy has broken the old trade-off between raising living standards and cutting environmental harm.
The rapid drop in renewable energy costs in the last decade (alongside huge improvements in battery technologies) has started to break this deadlock.
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Paul Krugman
Korrent
The hard-headed realists who wrote America's 2001 energy policy expected renewables to stay trivial, and were wrong by an enormous margin.
…who regarded themselves as hard-headed realists, is that it envisaged an energy future reliant almost entirely on fossil fuels plus a bit of nuclear…
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Bill Gates
x.com
.@fervoenergy is creating energy that’s clean, affordable, reliable, and American-made.
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Jensen Huang
Korrent
Computing is not a car market: x86 and ARM persist because ecosystems cost too much time and energy for anyone to replace.
…ecosystems are hard to replace. It costs an enormous amount of time and energy and most people don't want to do…
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Hannah Ritchie
Newsletter
Will Africa still be energy-poor in 2050?
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Lex Fridman
x.com
Here's my conversation with Don Lincoln about some of the biggest open questions in physics, including dark energy, dark matter, the matter-antimatter imbalance, quantum vacuum, quantum foam, and the quest to unify the…
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Emanuele Bartolesi
GitHub
vscode-copilot-footprint — Copilot Footprint is a VS Code extension that estimates the environmental footprint (energy, CO₂e, water, tree equivalent, and real-world equivalents) of GitHub Copilot tok…
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Ramez Naam
Newsletter
Clean Energy Disruption – Video from South Africa
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Balaji Srinivasan
Recommends
Energy and Civilization — Vaclav Smil
…The Selfish Gene, Albion's Seed, War and Peace and War, Stalin's War, Energy and Civilization, Who We Are and How We Got Here, The Ancient City, The Fourth Turning, The Grey Lady…
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Tomasz Tunguz
Loved
The New Map — Daniel Yergin
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Daniel Yergin explores the changing landscape of energy, geopolitics, & climate change.
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Ramez Naam
Newsletter
Yes, Blockchain Can Help Us Solve Climate Change – Why I Joined Nori
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Sean Carroll
Korrent
Physicists did not invent dark matter and dark energy to rescue their theories — they would much rather the answer were something cooler, and the data will not allow it.
…like you say, of losing the plot because they need dark matter and dark energy. I don’t want dark matter and dark energy; I want something much cooler than that. I’ve tried. But you got to listen to the equations…
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Ramez Naam
Newsletter
How Cheap Can Electric Vehicles Get?
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Emmanuel Macron
Korrent
The era in which Europe bought its energy from Russia, had its goods made in China and left its security to the United States is over.
And so yes, the era when Europe bought its energy and fertilizers from Russia, had its goods manufactured in China, and delegated its security to the United States of America, is over.
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Sriram Krishnan
x.com
…centers in places that don’t have those issues but still meet perf/$ and energy and security constraints. c) we get more efficient vertically ( use less…
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Elon Musk
Korrent
Electrifying transport and heating means electricity output has to triple, because each of the three is about a third of energy use today.
So energy usage right now is roughly one third, very rough terms, one third electricity, one third transport, one third heating. And so in order for everything to go sustainable, to go electric, you need to triple…
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Simon Willison
Korrent
Concerns about the energy cost of an individual LLM prompt are no longer credible, though the environmental impact of the AI datacenter buildout remains a real worry.
There’s still plenty to worry about with respect to the environmental impact of the great AI datacenter buildout, but a lot of the concerns over the energy cost of individual prompts are no longer credible.
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Casey Handmer
Korrent
Delay in permitting clean energy kills more Americans every year than the September 11 attacks did.
…indifference to regulatory inefficiency, considering only the area of green energy development, kills more people every year – more than 10 people per day, and that’s only within the…
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Scott H Young
x.com
Lesson Three: Rhythmic Productivity—A More Humane Way to Work https://t.co/Fr25MZlHgF Human energy and focus fluctuate, yet many productivity systems assume a steady state. This piece looks at how aligning work with…
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Ramez Naam
Newsletter
Solar’s Future is Insanely Cheap (2020)
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Casey Handmer
Blog
Direct Current Data Centers
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Casey Handmer
Korrent
Seasonal energy storage is a heat problem rather than a battery problem: electricity is hard to store for months and heat is easy.
Storing electricity for months is economically difficult, but storing heat is easy.
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Praveen Kumar Purushothaman
x.com
What A Night. 🔥 London.js with Tessl & @incident_io absolutely delivered on Wednesday! A packed room, huge energy, and some of the most forward-thinking JavaScript conversations we’ve had yet. Massive shoutout to the…
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Mark Lynas
Bluesky
This was my favourite episode for a long time - Zuzu is such a star, and her energy is just infectious. Sharks are lucky to have someone like her on their side! Please do listen...
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Bill Gates
Recommends
How the World Really Works — Vaclav Smil
But I highly recommend reading him on the subject because he is so good at explaining how the world’s energy systems work today.
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Ramez Naam
Newsletter
The Third Phase of Clean Energy Will Be the Most Disruptive Yet
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Douglas Rushkoff
Uses
TextEdit — Apple
Articles happen in Word, but I'm leaving it behind more and more, and just writing in Textedit to save myself all the time and energy associated with Microsoft.
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Hannah Ritchie
Korrent
Making food more expensive is not a way to fix the food system, because higher food prices fall hardest on the poorest people.
Simply making fossil fuels more expensive without having affordable alternatives just makes energy more expensive, which hits the poorest hardest.
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Henrik Karlsson
Liked
Harry Potter — J. K. Rowling
There are children's books that have summoned this energy for us—Torbjørn Egner, The Little House on the Prairie, Harry Potter—but generally speaking, children's books are a drag.
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Sam Altman
Korrent
Compute is not a market like phones, where demand is capped by how many buyers there are; intelligence is priced like energy, so the only real question is how much the world uses at a given price.
But compute is different. Intelligence is going to be more like energy or something like that, where the only thing that I think makes sense to talk about is, at price X, the world will use this much compute, and at…
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Casey Handmer
Korrent
Cheap clean energy has broken the old trade-off between raising living standards and cutting environmental harm.
Cheap solar is the unlock that brings human progress and climate action from the realm of fundamental incompatibility to complimentary inevitability.
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Casey Handmer
Korrent
Tariffs are beside the point in the energy race with China; what is actually costing America is environmental regulation, and Texas is out-deploying California ten to one because of it.
…regulations that are actively preventing us from deploying renewable energy in the United States, like this is the reason Texas is winning. Texas is out deploying California 10…
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Hannah Ritchie
Korrent
Cereals will stay an outdoor crop, because the energy to grow them indoors costs far more than the grain is worth.
Without some crazy technological breakthrough, cereals are are going to be an outdoor-only crop for a long time.
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Henrik Karlsson
Liked
The Little House on the Prairie — Laura Ingalls Wilder
There are children's books that have summoned this energy for us—Torbjørn Egner, The Little House on the Prairie, Harry Potter—but generally speaking, children's books are a drag.
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Douglas Rushkoff
Uses
Scrivener — Literature & Latte
I write my books and comics scripts in Scrivener. Articles happen in Word, but I'm leaving it behind more and more, and just writing in Textedit to save myself all the time and energy associated with Microsoft.
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Mark Lynas
Bluesky
Is it over for nuclear? As the renewables + batteries electro-tech clean energy revolution gathers pace, do we still need those hugely expensive giant reactors? Join me and Bryony Worthington for our Season 2 ender…
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Vicki Boykis
Korrent
Reading fiction is necessary to an engineer's creative capacity; reading only technical books drains it
Yet, I also need to read fiction because if I only read tech books, they take away my creative energy rather than grant it, as fiction does.
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Ramez Naam
Korrent
Demand for electricity will rise to absorb far more solar than is currently considered feasible.
Add these up, and it’s plausible that solar’s contribution to the energy system could double or triple the amount currently considered feasible for solar to provide.
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Adam Wathan
Mixed on
REAPER
It's basically the Vim of audio editing software, so I wouldn't recommend it if you don't have the time and energy to heavily invest in customizing it for your workflow, but I can move like lightning in this thing.
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Ramez Naam
Newsletter
Solar doesn’t need a “breakthrough”. It’s a breakthrough on it’s own.
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Lincoln Michel
Loved
James — Percival Everett
Briefly, James is Huckleberry Finn retold from the perspective of Jim. It has all the energy and humor of Twain's work—in Everett's own unique voice of course—and adds a whole new level of depth to the story.
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Hannah Ritchie
Korrent
Biofuels cannot supply enough energy to matter for a country like Britain or to replace all transport fuels.
The US uses a UK-sized amount of land to grow biofuels.4 In return, it accounts for around 10% of the country’s motor gasoline supply.
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Sean Carroll
Blog
New Course: The Many Hidden Worlds of Quantum Mechanics
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Hannah Ritchie
Korrent
Concerns about the energy cost of an individual LLM prompt are no longer credible, though the environmental impact of the AI datacenter buildout remains a real worry.
Unless you’re an extreme power user, asking AI questions every day is still a rounding error on your total electricity footprint.
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Nat Eliason
Mixed on
A Random Walk Down Wall Street — Burton G. Malkiel
A fine intro to investing if you think you can reliably beat the market or that active trading is a good use of energy. If you're already bought in on index funds though, you won't find much here.
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Casey Handmer
Korrent
The United Kingdom is the one rich industrial country that cannot run on solar alone, and it has to build wind at scale instead.
…Among other problems, the UK needs to decide if it wants the future where energy is cheap and it is rich, or the future where energy is expensive and it is poor. If the former, it is time to get serious about large…
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Balaji Srinivasan
Recommends
Foundation — Isaac Asimov
…The Selfish Gene, Albion's Seed, War and Peace and War, Stalin's War, Energy and Civilization, Who We Are and How We Got Here, The Ancient City, The Fourth Turning, The Grey Lady…
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Balaji Srinivasan
Recommends
Unqualified Reservations — Curtis Yarvin
…The Selfish Gene, Albion's Seed, War and Peace and War, Stalin's War, Energy and Civilization, Who We Are and How We Got Here, The Ancient City, The Fourth Turning, The Grey Lady…
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Balaji Srinivasan
Recommends
Stalin's War — Sean McMeekin
…The Selfish Gene, Albion's Seed, War and Peace and War, Stalin's War, Energy and Civilization, Who We Are and How We Got Here, The Ancient City, The Fourth Turning, The Grey Lady…
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Balaji Srinivasan
Recommends
The Selfish Gene — Richard Dawkins
…The Selfish Gene, Albion's Seed, War and Peace and War, Stalin's War, Energy and Civilization, Who We Are and How We Got Here, The Ancient City, The Fourth Turning, The Grey Lady…
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Balaji Srinivasan
Recommends
The Grey Lady Winked — Ashley Rindsberg
…The Selfish Gene, Albion's Seed, War and Peace and War, Stalin's War, Energy and Civilization, Who We Are and How We Got Here, The Ancient City, The Fourth Turning, The Grey Lady…
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Balaji Srinivasan
Recommends
Albion's Seed — David Hackett Fischer
…The Selfish Gene, Albion's Seed, War and Peace and War, Stalin's War, Energy and Civilization, Who We Are and How We Got Here, The Ancient City, The Fourth Turning, The Grey Lady…
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Balaji Srinivasan
Recommends
War and Peace and War — Peter Turchin
…The Selfish Gene, Albion's Seed, War and Peace and War, Stalin's War, Energy and Civilization, Who We Are and How We Got Here, The Ancient City, The Fourth Turning, The Grey Lady…
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Balaji Srinivasan
Recommends
The Fourth Turning — William Strauss and Neil Howe
…The Selfish Gene, Albion's Seed, War and Peace and War, Stalin's War, Energy and Civilization, Who We Are and How We Got Here, The Ancient City, The Fourth Turning, The Grey Lady…
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Balaji Srinivasan
Recommends
The Ancient City — Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges
…The Selfish Gene, Albion's Seed, War and Peace and War, Stalin's War, Energy and Civilization, Who We Are and How We Got Here, The Ancient City, The Fourth Turning, The Grey Lady…
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Balaji Srinivasan
Recommends
A Short History of Nearly Everything — Bill Bryson
…The Selfish Gene, Albion's Seed, War and Peace and War, Stalin's War, Energy and Civilization, Who We Are and How We Got Here, The Ancient City, The Fourth Turning, The Grey Lady…
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Balaji Srinivasan
Recommends
The Lessons of History — Will Durant and Ariel Durant
…The Selfish Gene, Albion's Seed, War and Peace and War, Stalin's War, Energy and Civilization, Who We Are and How We Got Here, The Ancient City, The Fourth Turning, The Grey Lady…
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Balaji Srinivasan
Recommends
Who We Are and How We Got Here — David Reich
…The Selfish Gene, Albion's Seed, War and Peace and War, Stalin's War, Energy and Civilization, Who We Are and How We Got Here, The Ancient City, The Fourth Turning, The Grey Lady…
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Mr. Money Mustache
x.com
This is the best piece of news from 2025 in my opinion: Solar is already close to being the world's biggest energy source, with about 3 TW (= 3000 nuclear power plants!!) worth of installed capacity. This graph from…
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Hannah Ritchie
Korrent
Forced labour in Chinese clean-energy supply chains is real, and it is not why the goods are cheap.
But my point is that this is still not the reason (or is only a very small reason) why these goods from China are cheaper than elsewhere. The main driver of lower labour costs has been automation; not having a human…
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Jason Fried
Korrent
Making something brand new gives you room to explore new design approaches; the gravity of an existing system bends you back towards conforming.
The gravity of existing decisions in current systems requires so much energy to reach escape velocity that you tend to conform rather than explore. Essentially you're bent back to where you started, rather than arcing…
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Ursula von der Leyen
Korrent
This is Europe's independence moment: it must be able to provide its own defence and control the technology and energy its economy runs on.
This must be Europe's Independence Moment. I believe this is our Union's mission. To be able to take care of our own defence and security. To take control over the technologies and energies that will fuel our economies.
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Tobias Lütke
Korrent
In a managerially run company legitimacy lives in the plan rather than in any person, which is why changing anything takes enormous activation energy.
no one carries the full legitimacy inside of a company. Legitimacy is a currency in a companies. No one carries the full legitimacy in a company, even the CEO. The CEO just has a lot of input on the plan. The plan…
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Matt Webb
Mastodon
this economics paper on the stagnation of the UK is a must-read just... stacks of evidence on how housing, infrastructure, and energy have gone wrong and are letting everyone down compared to other countries no…
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Sean Carroll
Korrent
The largest contribution physics can make to AI is energy efficiency: computers waste heat hilariously worse than brains do, and nobody has seriously tried to fix it.
I think this is one of the biggest things that physics can help with, and it’s an obvious kind of low-hanging fruit situation where the heat generation, the inefficiency, the waste of existing high-level computers is…