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David Galbraith

@daveg

Technologist and VC, former architect. Invented these (i.e. link in bios: anildash.com/2010/10/04/one…), among other things.

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The EU/US trade deal is effectively a commitment to carbon emissions, by requiring quadruple purchase of US fossil fuels from $65b to $250b a year for three years. Roughly the equivalent of every person on Earth flying once, or Europe’s entire yearly commercial aviation traffic

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If this is true then we are in exactly the same dynamic as the dotcom bubble, bust and long term rebound - where in the long term, AI will be bigger than we can possibly imagine but in the short term the subsidy will run out.

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Firefighting planes be like Sully, the miracle on the Hudson, but surviving a crash landing on demand, and doing it again every few minutes.

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Was maggot infested meat an early form of cooking? Neanderthals possibly ate a lot of rotten, maggot infested meat. This is not as unusual as it sounds, arctic populations ate a lot of fermented meat and everything from salami to cheese, yoghurt, swedish fermented herring or

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More and more obsessed with this. Perhaps humans were natural scavengers that could not break down food that wasn't rotten and cooking evolved as a safer way to break it down, so those that were smarter and could control fire survived as the fittest.

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Contrary to current fads, humans need processed (rotten, fermented or cooked) not raw food. Did we develop cooking as a safer alternative to scavenging rotten food? chatgpt.com/share/688a3126…

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Billion dollar signing bonuses. We will look back on this as the peak insanity of this bubble. This is more like irrational belief in AI scientist gods than science itself.