There are plenty of reasons to vote for Biden in November besides the fact that Trump is bad.

Biden is reviving American manufacturing, his foreign policy has been mostly great, and he has been a good steward of the economy and public safety.

noahpinion.blog/p/the-positive…

'GPT-5 is gonna be a lot smarter than GPT-4 in the general sense. And I think the gravity of that statement is underrated.'

Stunning graph: the plummeting tax rates of the richest Americans. For the first time in history, billionaires have a lower effective tax rate than working-class Americans.

The average property tax rate:

Texas 1.60%
Florida 0.91%
California 0.71%

Average Full Coverage Auto Insurance:

Florida $3,244 per year
California $2,663 per year
Texas $2,205 per year

Average Median Household Income:

California $84,094
Texas $61,874
Florida $61,777

Turns…

It's my birthday time, and my present this year is to offer another 101 bits of advice, in a nice handy list. Enjoy! kk.org/thetechnium/10…

These are always a treat and well worth the read.

How can AI accelerate progress in Energy and Climate Tech? Fascinating discussions at SHACK15 with Peter Leyden Reinvent Futures #ReinventFutures #AI #EnergyTech #ClimateTech #SHACK15

We had a terrific event last night with some remarkable speakers like Saul Griffith to try and answer the question of the night in the slide below. We made some progress but learned how much more we all really need to do. We will be producing videos of all the speakers soon…

Saul Saul Griffith is one of the best in the world in understanding what it will take to solve for climate change. He gave a short talk that challenged all of us to do a lot more… We will have his video produced soon and will share for all.

“We are putting the actual auto in automobile.” — Elon today

I predict that within 10 years, anyone reading this will have shifted their vehicle preference to a single primary variable — the autonomous software stack.

Everything physical will become a relative commodity. Safety…

We don't talk about this enough, but if Trump wins, he will do everything possible to repeal Biden's climate policies.

On the pod, David Roberts is incredibly informative on how disastrous this would be. He also explains a concept called 'petro-masculinity':
newrepublic.com/article/180802…

funny/sad that autocorrect thinks the phrase 'what has gone right with today's generation' must be wrong.

One man's opinion:

- Least interesting thing about Gavin Newsom is whether he will run for president.

- Most interesting thing is how he is using leverage at helm of state w 1/8th of US population and 1/7th of US economy. And whatever leverage he chooses after that.

RFK Jr is a Kennedy in name only. Even his own family knows he's a lunatic who's unfit for office.

Maybe #GenZ , like #Millennials before them, can *afford* to be anxious. The US is on a hot streak of creating generations that live far better than their parents did.

Via The Economist US, ht Johan Norberg.
economist.com/finance-and-ec…

Entrepreneurs, with passion for a vision, invent the future they want. These are my predictions for abundant, awesome, technology-based, Possible Tomorrows (2035-2049) ... if we allow them to happen! #TED2024 TED Talks

Feeling uneasy about the rise of #AI ? Generative tech expert and former WIRED Managing Editor Peter Leyden provides us with reasons to be optimistic about the future—and ways we can harness the powers of AI for #resilience and #growth .
peterleyden.substack.com/p/the-case-for…

#eventprofs

Deepmind's Demis Hassabis at TED tonight
When asked about Microsoft + OpenAI spending $100B to train their next model: 'Google will have spent more than that over time. To get to AGI, you need a lot of compute. Google still has the most compute.'

'With protein folding, we did…

SF co-living homes are like deep ocean currents that drive the nutrient and talent rich city newcomers into convection cells with the experienced and well-capitalized.

The sociology of San Francisco does this amazing thing of idea, talent, and capital discovery 🧵

Things you won’t be seeing on Fox News tonight…