Oli Mears

We need to put the Olympics on the moon: It’s a great way to politically and culturally unify the world. It’s a great way to stress test population sustaining and infrastructure building technology outside of Earth. The moon is a great launching pad into deeper space.

The ethical reason that more skilled labour should earn more money is because this creates an overall systemic effect of a better society. This is due to faster technological progress and higher total output per person due to more effective labour specialisation.

Depression is recognised as a possible symptom for deficiency in each of these nutrients. Doctors don’t test for deficiencies before prescribing antidepressants. 16-20% of the UK are vitamin D deficient: gov.uk/government/news/new-r… 25% of the adults in the UK are iodine deficient: gov.uk/government/statistics… 12% of the UK are below the requirements for magnesium, 15% for iron, and 6% for zinc: cambridge.org/core/services/…

I kinda want the future to be carbon neutral fossil fuels created by factories like this which just recycle it into oil to put in your car. There’s a finite amount of energy capacity on the planet and some of it is in the CO2 and H2O in the air.

Entire segments of AI research are doing the equivalent of p-hacking and overfitting with these benchmarks.

It really seems that net-zero is a nonsense policy compared to producing as much green energy as humanly possible.

Sam Altman is saying that in 6.5 years the total token use of 1 person (the highest user) will equal 150 times the current total global usage at OpenAI. How can people not think this is the attitude of a bubble?

Finite useful resources become valuable, the infinite resources become cheap. What’s effectively infinite in the long run? Energy once we get solar and nuclear fully going. What’s finite and useful? Most metals. Extremely finite? Gold. Extremely useful? Silver.

If we sold all the oil rights to the North Sea oil at ~$22 per barrel (with no taxation for extraction). We could get ~$200B and use it to build enough solar panels to meet the entire country’s electricity demands assuming a mere 35% economies of scale discount.

AND: Reverse employer NI increase. Heavy tax refunds for investing in training as an individual or corporation. Capital gains rebates for improvements to buildings that increase total housing capacity.

AND: Reverse employer NI increase. Heavy tax refunds for investing in training as an individual or corporation. Capital gains rebates for improvements to buildings that increase total housing capacity.

My genuine conception of the fabric of reality is: ‘It's (plato's) caves all the way up’. As an alternative to ‘it's turtles all the way down’.

The death penalty is horrific not least because it allows governments to frame and kill citizens.

If a company pays for external training for an employee at any accredited course for at least X hours per year. Then the employer should pay no national insurance tax for that employee.