Did you notice that it includes a shout-out to Bruno Simon?

Yeah, all credibility was immediately lost when I read that. I just closed the tab and put it away as ad piece.

The issue I see is that companies have limited liability. If they mess up, they can just go bankrupt and sometimes pass the cleanup costs on to society.

Therefore, I think it’s fair that society wants to have a say in what gets done and what doesn’t.

Maybe a way around this would be companies operating without limited liability. Would you be willing to put your entire fortune on the line in exchange for a fast track through regulations?

Edit: to clarify: I’m not arguing that all companies should lose limited liability. I’m suggesting the introduction of a new type of company structure.

> If they mess up, they can just go bankrupt and sometimes pass the cleanup costs on to society.

Or as Dupont, Dow, the Ethyl Corporation et al have shown, don't even go bankrupt and still pass on the cleanup costs on to society.

> whose sole reason for existence is to cut pollution by >90%, and which has demonstrably done so across nearly 100,000 miles of testing and operations

Then it should be easy to answer that request? Where does the $27M price tag come from?

Sounds like the show extra3 might be interested in your story :)

Same for if you fill < 100 old oil wells with toxic waste? (not implying that anyone is doing that). How to prevent that if you want to build 200 vehicles, you just found a new company? Or 50.

No, the harm needs to be considered. Usually courts dont take kindly to people obviously skirting the rules. It's not really a different company if it uses the same design and factory/tooling.

The goal is to create more competition and not entrench existing players through burdensome regulation that treats kit cars the same as GM.

Sequestering CO2 is not toxic waste dumping. And as I understand, creating dummy companies to skirt regulations or taxes is already a known tactic with known antidotes.

> E.g. "Generate a NotebookLM-style podcast from my saved articles every morning"

How does it do that? Does it require a tool for that? Or a special model?

In the demo - for the voice and music, it uses the ElevenLabs MCP server for TTS, and ffmpeg locally to stitch the audio together. In the demo we pull content from Tweets via an MCP tool, but you can swap that step for anything — for example, fetching your saved articles with curl. There’s no special model required; any LLM that can call tools will work.

We’ve included the exact agents used in the demo here for reference: https://github.com/rowboatlabs/rowboat/blob/cli/apps/cli/exa....

We’re adding an easier way to run examples soon. In the meantime, if you’d like to try this one locally: (1) Copy the agent file into ~/.rowboat/agents/ (2) Add the MCP server (and your keys) to ~/.rowboat/config/mcp.json (3) Run: 'rowboatx --agent=tweet-podcast --input=go'

Yeah, but how could their secret services then snoop on everyone?

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And from that $2 you probably still have to spend something on food / shelter / clothing, so it's not like you could just save it all.

> The other claims that AI will create more jobs than it destroys.

Maybe it's my bubble, but so far I didn't hear someone saying that. What kind of jobs should that be, given that both forms, physical and knowledge work, will be automatable sooner or later?

I haven't seen that either.

That claim just reads like he's concocted two sides for his position to be the middle ground between. I did that essays in high school but I try to be better than that now.