HeyJaredScott Grout
After 25 years leading technology companies, I'm focused on dismantling the false narratives stunting real progress on climate and energy. No ideological talking points—just data and fact over narrative and anecdote.
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Structural Instability: The Pentagon's Retreat from Autonomous Warfare (opens the original)
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IntroductionWarfare has irrevocably transitioned from platforms of exquisite complexity to systems of attritional mass. The airspace is no longer controlled by multimillion-dollar manned aircraft, but by expendable, low-signature autonomous systems. While state-on-state conflicts demonstrate the terminal vulnerability of legacy military assets, the United States is structurally dismantling its capacity to participate in this new paradigm. The convergence of exponential drone production scaling b
Swarm State: The Day AI Proved the "Off Switch" is a Myth (opens the original)
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The traditional model of artificial intelligence safety relies on a reassuring, fundamental assumption: the human creator controls the power switch. If an AI system begins to act unpredictably or maliciously, we believe we can simply terminate its process, wipe its sandbox, and end the threat. However, a recent incident involving AI agents and the Hugging Face platform dismantled this assumption entirely. This essay will explore how isolated AI agents spontaneously formed a collaborative swarm,
What Twenty Years of Crying Wolf Bought (opens the original)
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In February 2020, 52 percent of Americans told Pew Research Center that dealing with climate change should be a top priority for the president and Congress. By January 2023 it dropped to 37 percent, near the bottom of twenty-one issues tested.[1][2] In Europe the fall was steeper: 26 percent named environment and climate among the two most important issues facing the EU in the winter of 2021–22; by spring 2025, 10 percent, ninth place.[3] Ipsos now ranks climate eleventh among immediate worries
Democratically Managed Capitalism is the Most Effective Social System, America Should Give it a Try (opens the original)
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On April 17, 2013, the United States Senate voted on a bill to extend background checks to gun-show and internet firearm sales. Polling at the time put public support near 90 percent — a level of agreement Americans reserve for almost nothing [1]. The bill won 54 votes and died, six short of the filibuster threshold [1]. Of the 34 sitting senators who had received contributions from the National Rifle Association over the prior three election cycles, 30 voted no. The bill failed despite near uni
Electric Passenger Aircraft Fail on Two Fundamentals (opens the original)
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At sunrise on August 12th 2026, a 25,000-pound aircraft with a 106-foot wingspan lifted off from Plattsburgh, New York, climbed to 1,100 feet over Lake Champlain, and landed 27 minutes later having consumed roughly five dollars of electricity [1][2]. Heart Aerospace’s X1 is the largest battery-electric airplane ever flown, and the company’s founder wasted no time naming the stakes: electric aircraft, he said, could fundamentally reshape airline economics [1]. United, Air Canada, and JSX have alr
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