link.dump.12.12.2025
climate change, unrecognizable AI, nonconformance, spaaaace
The question of how to trade off between civilization improvement and climate advocacy is deeply analyzed here. Hannah Ritchie is my favorite for analyzing the balance of progress and climate change advocacy.
AI cannot detect AI, and neither can humans. I think this alone should squash many of the arguments against AI. If nobody can tell the difference then the only argument against it becomes “it’s not special like a human” and we get into more than enough trouble thinking humans are “special.”
China is the biggest climate problem. I’ve been loving the Dispatch’s Energy section and this one has a good summary of many of the recent pieces.
The illusion of consensus and the fear of “friction from not conforming” is a whole mood.
My favorite write-up of the Netflix/WarnerBros thing that’s going down. I love the framing and how distribution went from being a bad thing to a good thing.
Interesting write-up about how remote work for young employees is bad. I tend to agree. In fact, I generally tend to agree for folks with more experience. There are always trade-offs and I’m highly cognizant of them as a remote worker. I also think that much of this can be solved by an organization embracing remote though too.
An incredible deep dive on one American vision for energy. Just all sorts of good stuff there.
Someone thinks the cost of building software is 90% reduced because of LLMs. Suffice to say I disagree I guess, and that’s coming from someone who really really loves AI.
Am super pumped to see SpaceX IPO because I would love to invest in it. It’s interesting to read why is it finally going public also. In a word: AI. I think there is some sort of bubble there but, at the same time, I think there’s a rational basis for much of this type of thing. Curious to see if SpaceX becomes the jewel in Musks’ crown and supplants Tesla.
I like this concept of a 0.1x engineer. Software engineering is changing. This, incidentally, speaks to the silliness of the 90% reduced cost mentioned above…
