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Also let that be the most important lesson to anyone who says that the AI companies, or OpenAI in particular, can be counted on to act responsibly, or to keep their promises, or that we can count on their corporate structures, or that we can rely on anything such that we don’t need laws and regulations to keep them in check.
AI #83: The Mask Comes Off
TheZvi
Just like regular investment funds can either be actively managed or “closet indexers” who mostly track the index, ESG funds can either have active idiosyncratic views about what companies are good for ESG, or can just track published benchmarks. If you just track the benchmarks then you will, in a certain light, have better ESG performance, because *the benchmarks are the ESG performance* . But that might not be quite what one wants in an ESG manager.
Money Stuff: AMC Has Some Clever APEs
Matt Levine
Restoring land without restoring relationship is an empty exercise.
It is relationship that will endure and relationship that will sustain the restored land. Therefore, reconnecting people and the landscape is as essential as reestablishing proper hydrology or cleaning up contaminants. It is medicine for the earth.
Braiding Sweetgrass
Robin Wall Kimmerer
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