The foundation cocktail place in SF has some art on the wall that changes every minute. I can't remember if by John Cage or someone else..

Very nice. The story sounds very familiar to me, maybe the movie was part of Banff film festival?

The plan seems to be to (1) "RAGE: Retire All Government Employees (...), take over the United States government and gut the federal bureaucracy. Then, replace civil servants with political loyalists"

So in essence, they think these short term problems can be reversed once the pawns are replaced.

(1) https://www.thenerdreich.com/reboot-elon-musk-ceo-dictator-d...

I'm not sure they care about the problems solved. The model is probably closer to what happened to Russia after the Soviet Union collapsed.

It should be noted… it’s illegal to do that.

The vice president is out here saying that judges shouldn't be able to stop the president from doing something.

Just did a quick check and it translates to $30K in Brazil as well

Entry level Dolphins cost $20.5k in Brazil (R$118k).

That's the Dolphin Mini, a totally different car

Wouldn't rise up lead to a coup? Isn't this exactly what Trump is waiting / routing for?

Thanks for the perspective. The courage to "face society" and write for the public is one of the reasons I've always loved (trying) to read Daniel Dennets work. He seemed to be writing for scientists and less to other philosophers. Not sure if you agree

I'm not super familiar with Dennett's work but I do know that he is better known outside of academic philosophy than within, probably for the reason you mentioned.

OT but what's the best way to find incentives and rebates given a zip code? Google just suggests 1,000 ads...

https://sunroof.withgoogle.com/ kinda works, but strangely if I try it on my house in Chicago, it omits the state rebate. Illinois/local utilities cover 20-40% the installation cost, depending on how well they produce. After the ~30% tax rebate from the feds, basically halves the "price after incentives".

TBH, best way is to talk to a solar provider. They're not as hard to stop talking to as Mormons.

DSIRE (Database of State Incentives for Renewables & Efficiency) is the database that all of those companies use.

https://www.dsireusa.org/

Disclosure: I'm also a Jasmine cofounder.

Looks cool. Near $800 tag price is sharp but a welcome competition to kindle, remarkable, and the like.

https://daylightcomputer.com/

Replace AI with car, airplane, medic devices in the sentence above... Why is AI any different from other human creations? Why shouldn't we try building it responsibly?

I don't get the all or nothing attitude.

I hope you're not trying to cite those things as examples of stuff we've built out responsibly.

If you had a button that would erase cars, airplanes or medical devices as they exist today, would you push it? I believe these inventions are very net positive for the world as they are right now.

A hundred years ago, in Michigan the home of the automobile, we had an extensive electric light rail network between most cities of at least a few thousand people. You could walk to a trolley which ran every 15 minutes, ride it to a local interchange, and pick up a connecting line to any major city in the region.

Unfathomable what it would cost to rebuild that infrastructure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_consp...

Great name! (Portuguese word for 'pencil')

Huh, here I was just assuming it was a reference to "lapis lazuli" but seeing as lua is Portuguese for moon, "pencil" makes most sense here.

Thanks!

It's Latin for "stone". Also used in Italian as a regional/alternative word for "pencil".

As in "lua rock"?

Moon rock, I suppose