MARS is closed due to the Santa Claus Parade, so we’re going to gather nearby at https://what3words.com/fizzle.relating.title
which is outside the Mercatto cafe. I’ll still be wearing a neon jacket. We’ll relocate to somewhere warmer at 14:30
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I forgot my neon yellow jacket, so look for a black baseball cap instead.
FYI, Terraform Industries published a new blog post about the cost of their hydrogen electrolysis, which is significantly less than you’re linked estimate of around $7/kg. They claim they can get $3/kg using current legacy solar, but with current solar cost trends continuing (which I know you’re skeptical of) could reach $1.12/kg. They accomplish this by optimizing the cost/efficiency trade-off of the electrolysis setup.
I’m assuming Casey Handmer is being overly optimistic, but I can’t tell by how much.
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I previously mangled the event time. For the sake of clarity, let me mark it down in this comment so people are notified: Sunday, March 26th from 14:00 to 16:00 EST
I am irrationally/disproportionately insecure about discussing my mediocre/generic goals in a public forum, so I’d rather discuss this in-person at the meetup. :apologetic-emoji
I think David’s primary concern is choosing the goals in “systematically finds a better path to goals” which he wants to name “meta-rationality” for the sake of discussion, but I think could be phrased as part of the rationality process?
I truly do not know. I have many friends (Hazard) and acquaintances (Malcolm Ocean) in those communities and only understand their blog posts and investigations/discussions 20% of the time, but maybe that’s because I’m a stage 4.5 dweller.
Hilariously, this meetup is motivated by the sentiment/discomfort/uncertainty expressed in Ellie Hain’s reply to the tweet you linked:
the problem is though, that the more meta you go, the less concrete solutions you get. A lot of talking but very little doing
Aside: I’ve met Ellie Hain in person and like the School for Social Design, but have yet to find a way to design an approachable meetup around their ideas.
To find the meetup, look for a woman wearing a neon jacket. I am ill, so my partner is running the meetup in my place. She’ll be wearing the neon jacket and handing out name tags.