Anthropic Hired The One Credential It Couldn't Build
Anthropic did not poach a researcher. It bought the one thing in artificial intelligence that money and compute cannot manufacture: a scientific result the world already agreed was real.
The thermostat is becoming cheap enough for one country to grab
Solar geoengineering's only real barrier was never the science or the money. It was that the tools to do it did not exist, and a small group of researchers is now quietly building them.