I was not really confident in anything before having them and it turns out I was correct
Zach WeinersmithHey parents of bsky: What are some theories of parenting you were very confident in right up until you had your own kids?
finance, energy, climate, geopolitics, industrial policy @thepolycrisis.bsky.social in Australia -> DMs hard to retrieve, best to email
I was not really confident in anything before having them and it turns out I was correct
Zach WeinersmithHey parents of bsky: What are some theories of parenting you were very confident in right up until you had your own kids?
Bahaha, China Shock AI edition
The Wall Street JournalOpenAI and Anthropic executives are sounding the alarm about the rise of cheap AI, particularly powerful new models produced in China, suggesting they will lead to a “dystopian” AI future and present unacceptable security risks without regulation.
It’s crazy that the EU’s electrification rate is no faster than to oil & gas producing countries, especially since 2022. Good on Fatih Birol for drawing attention to it
We need a new politics of climate adaptation. It’s much harder than the politics of cutting emissions phenomenalworld.org/analysis/glo...
"Perhaps the victory lap for getting rid of RCP8.5 was premature" 😭 www.theclimatebrink.com/p/deadly-hea...
the 2nd one is parametric insurance!
JW MasonAnother is that everyone knows it is zero-sum, but both sides think they are the winners because of different views about the probability of defaults. Another is that one side *thinks* the deal is positive sum (or that they hold the winning bet) because they are misinformed about some aspect of it.
“We can’t defend ourselves against Putin with the Schwarze Null.” German fin minister. …Or climate change
Albert Pinto"German re-industrialization led by the arms sector, what could possibly go wrong?"-@bordergroves.bsky.social @katemac.bsky.social & I wrote about politics of new Europe in 'Europe has entered its metal era'- more Mil AND more green spending, in name of autonomy phenomenalworld.org/analysis/eur...