The office is in San Francisco so P.L. is no-doubt a US corporation. Is the B-corp charter sufficient to prevent a hostile takeover by, say, a military contractor, or by the chainsaw administration itself? During this constitutional crisis, what is to stop the chainsaw from aiming its power at P.L. to force it to change its charter or to force it to close by dint of lawsuits or other threats? What safeguards are in place against the AI training Anthropic's Claude is receiving being weaponized against the environment or in protection of the Mafia State? Has P.L.'s QA tried things like asking Claude to generate a DeepFake based on all it has learned from P.L.'s satelite data?
My spouse is retiring from a career as a consultant to the US State Dep't in software testing, QA and clear RFP writing, so he has taught me to ask these sorts of questions.
Thank you for this excellent episode. I've watched every episode you've made. I started watching around two years in, and went back and watched all the back episodes. Every single one is a hit.
In the early 90s I catalogued my 35-40 year collection of National Geographics. In the years up to the first lunar walk, the tone was, "look at the wonders of this great big beautiful earth!" The first year after the walk seemed more reflective, and thereafter, the tone became, "look at how fragile this tiny little marble floating in the sky is!" Could Planet Labs capture imaginations the way that moon walk did?
Academic types are always so excited about greater understanding. I get this, it is indeed exciting in an academic sense, as nourishment for a hungry mind. It’s important to curb your expectations with regards to where deeper understanding will lead. Look how our understanding has blossomed over the past century. Yet look at what the state of our predicament did during that same period.
Right, I was just responding to your recasting of earth's predicament as our own predicament. It isn't just our own predicament. It is the predicament that all life on earth now faces.
The office is in San Francisco so P.L. is no-doubt a US corporation. Is the B-corp charter sufficient to prevent a hostile takeover by, say, a military contractor, or by the chainsaw administration itself? During this constitutional crisis, what is to stop the chainsaw from aiming its power at P.L. to force it to change its charter or to force it to close by dint of lawsuits or other threats? What safeguards are in place against the AI training Anthropic's Claude is receiving being weaponized against the environment or in protection of the Mafia State? Has P.L.'s QA tried things like asking Claude to generate a DeepFake based on all it has learned from P.L.'s satelite data?
My spouse is retiring from a career as a consultant to the US State Dep't in software testing, QA and clear RFP writing, so he has taught me to ask these sorts of questions.
Thank you for this excellent episode. I've watched every episode you've made. I started watching around two years in, and went back and watched all the back episodes. Every single one is a hit.
In the early 90s I catalogued my 35-40 year collection of National Geographics. In the years up to the first lunar walk, the tone was, "look at the wonders of this great big beautiful earth!" The first year after the walk seemed more reflective, and thereafter, the tone became, "look at how fragile this tiny little marble floating in the sky is!" Could Planet Labs capture imaginations the way that moon walk did?
The earth’s predicament? Or ours?
Academic types are always so excited about greater understanding. I get this, it is indeed exciting in an academic sense, as nourishment for a hungry mind. It’s important to curb your expectations with regards to where deeper understanding will lead. Look how our understanding has blossomed over the past century. Yet look at what the state of our predicament did during that same period.
How about the predicament of all other species?
Unfortunate collateral damage. We are incapable of managing ourselves for a positive long term outcome at present.
Right, I was just responding to your recasting of earth's predicament as our own predicament. It isn't just our own predicament. It is the predicament that all life on earth now faces.
Like an asteroid strike, yes.