Brent Schulkin

@schulkin

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Nice to see that Hugging Face is working on "Energy Star"-style ratings for AI models. Would love to see all these systems developing smart routing of each query so that simple/easy ones are routed to energy efficient models. https://huggingface.co/blog/sasha/energy-star-ai-proposal

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Agreed, but also it’s crazy that this article didn’t even mention that Biden is undoing the problem he himself helped create. Joe Biden is one of the biggest villains in the history of drug policy. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/05/joe-bidens-marijuana-legalization/

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You need to keep Farcan on hand https://warpcast.com/schulkin/0x245c7b3b

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lol can we teach people to do this

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Ahhhh, I see… makes sense. I didn’t read the whole article because of the paywall

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Haha no, I wasnt being sarcastic even though you could read it that way! I have known people on the sustainability team at Microsoft and seen them present at climate conferences. Lots of good leadership in the past…

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Ooof yeah… Microsoft has been really exemplary on climate stuff up until this point

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I support this, although I don’t have much confidence that the impact of education/politics will outpace the impact of tech/economics. The wild card would be a complete collapse of the economic system that people attribute to exceeding our planetary boundaries. Not sure how soon that would arrive though…

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Yeah, I guess I’m just re-stating Jevons Paradox https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox It’s true that renewables are driving demand for fossil fuels lower than it would otherwise be, and yet overall demand is still growing ☹️

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Thank you!! 🪄💸

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schulkin.eth 🙏🐐

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OK, I’ve reached a big milestone editing videos for Trick or Treat. The structure, timing, and all the difficult visual stuff is now done. Next up is audio levels, music, sound effects, titles, color, subtitles, etc. The good news is that I personally VERY MUCH enjoy watching these. Hopefully you will like them too!

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Even as supply of renewable energy increases exponentially, so does our demand. This demand growth has been postponing the collapse of the fossil fuel energy business. What’s most likely to solve this problem: A) New energy sources like fusion, B) Slowing demand (ie: energy efficient quantum computing), C) ???

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In case the earnest arguments don’t work we could try funny ones https://warpcast.com/schulkin/0xeeb330bc

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Would be funny to protest the Tornado Cash verdict by creating a tongue-in-cheek campaign to… - Ban HTTPS - Demand Meta put all WhatsApp messages on senders’ Facebook profiles - Demand Google put replays of incognito Chrome sessions on YouTube - Demand Amazon add “Credit card numbers you may like” to checkout

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Yes, or I believe @supercast supports multiple accounts

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A month ago I saved this cast to ponder and now I'm pondering it. The cognitive dissonance is real. Do you think it fosters a kind of self-hatred in people (ie: almost everybody) who are complicit in participating in the oppressive system?

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Wow, look at this distribution… this is terrible, but I’m thankful that seeing this actually energizes me to work harder and faster on climate solutions. Like, the scientists did their job and now sound full of despair, but builders still have a useful way to alchemize that feeling.

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I made a note to check this when I was back at my computer and I am surprised out how absolutely delightful it was to use this trick. Somehow it was still surprising, even though I have supposedly already known about it for 5 days. Thank you!

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Advisory: People attending Farcon while already addicted to Farcaster are at high risk of overdose. Please be prepared with Farcan™️

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