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Situational Awareness: Fantasies from San Francisco (opens the original)
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As many of you know, we’re researching and developing a movie where we set up a hedgefund. (working title: This Movie is a Hedgefund)Right now we’re in the research and development phase.We usually get people to come in and teach us the things we don’t know - and use our membership for that. Plus we read a ton of books.Today I’ve been reading a crazy 160 page sprawling essay by a guy called Leopold Aschenbrenner (written in 202
The £3.2 trillion lever nobody ever pulls on (opens the original)
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Last night we ran the first Green Pensions Helpline at the Power Station. It was run by Joanna Coull, who’s spent fourty years in financial services, which she describes as the boring part of her CV, and then a few years ago she looked properly at what the industry she’d spent her life in was actually doing with the money and couldn’t unsee it. She’s now deauthorised — walked away from being a regulated adviser because the regulations stop you helping anyone who isn’t already rich — and describe
While The Fires Rage (opens the original)
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It’s the summer where everyone suddenly realises the climate crisis that scientists, activists have been telling us is on its way has arrived. There’s terrible fires in Canada, Bordeaux has a wild inferno that all the French firefighters can’t put out. Greece is on fire; Sicily is on fire. And now as I write this there’s a wildfire raging on Dunwich Heath, just down the road from Sizewell C, the Nuclear Power Station currently in construction. The Nuclear Power plant are even lending fire fighte
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