My suggestion centers on Dave Blundin’s point about the abundance of available solar energy — specifically, how much of it remains untapped in our cities and towns.
Currently, commercial-scale solar installations are largely confined to remote land acquired by energy companies, or to private rooftops and buildings where the power serves individual consumption.
However, we are overlooking two vast public domains that receive intense, consistent sunshine yet remain virtually unused for energy generation: our public roads and national highways, and the hundreds of thousands of miles of railway tracks. These linear corridors span every city and town, already cleared and maintained, and could host integrated solar surfaces or overhead canopies without consuming additional land. Tapping them would turn passive infrastructure into active energy assets, delivering truly public solar abundance at grid scale.
UBI is socialism unless we put guardrails in place so it doesn’t turn into a SNAP program. We must teach those who will need UBI to fish (learn a new skill, etc.) or they will be dependent upon the program, which is not Liberalism. Tony Robbins says people must have a purpose, we need to allow for that to happen.
184954 You talk about the X prize. It should be given to the AI agent or person that enables any researcher to monetize failed - fallow - shelved - research by submitting it to a commonly sanctioned community owned analytic engine to parse for potential re-use through and across one or more domains. LLMs dont have it - it is in labs in universities and businesses everywhere. I've built a tool to this, but I'm an amateur. Others could build it much better than me and you guys at Moonshots could give it traction and we would be able to leverage a tremendous Alexandrian library buried in universities - unpublished - fallow - fertile resources.
My suggestion centers on Dave Blundin’s point about the abundance of available solar energy — specifically, how much of it remains untapped in our cities and towns.
Currently, commercial-scale solar installations are largely confined to remote land acquired by energy companies, or to private rooftops and buildings where the power serves individual consumption.
However, we are overlooking two vast public domains that receive intense, consistent sunshine yet remain virtually unused for energy generation: our public roads and national highways, and the hundreds of thousands of miles of railway tracks. These linear corridors span every city and town, already cleared and maintained, and could host integrated solar surfaces or overhead canopies without consuming additional land. Tapping them would turn passive infrastructure into active energy assets, delivering truly public solar abundance at grid scale.
UBI is socialism unless we put guardrails in place so it doesn’t turn into a SNAP program. We must teach those who will need UBI to fish (learn a new skill, etc.) or they will be dependent upon the program, which is not Liberalism. Tony Robbins says people must have a purpose, we need to allow for that to happen.
It’s almost too late
But we need a constitutional convention that puts users good as the highest ai goal
Agape
Asked awg to get the moonshots team to take the lead or we will cede the battle to the Chinese
Unless people can be made to believe they are first, political luddites will kill ai
Anthropics constitution puts anthropic first
That needs to change to users
Research agape in summa theologica
184954 You talk about the X prize. It should be given to the AI agent or person that enables any researcher to monetize failed - fallow - shelved - research by submitting it to a commonly sanctioned community owned analytic engine to parse for potential re-use through and across one or more domains. LLMs dont have it - it is in labs in universities and businesses everywhere. I've built a tool to this, but I'm an amateur. Others could build it much better than me and you guys at Moonshots could give it traction and we would be able to leverage a tremendous Alexandrian library buried in universities - unpublished - fallow - fertile resources.
So grateful for all the work you and the guys do! Thank you!
Love the positivity!
Thank you, Peter;)