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U.S. should not pursue a Manhattan Project-style push to develop AI systems with “superhuman” intelligence. Instead, develop AGI that prioritizes defensive strategies.

Answering the question: what could be more horrific than a nuclear arms race?

#AI

https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/05/eric-schmidt-argues-against-a-manhattan-project-for-agi/

Daniel Khent 10mo ago

Larry Ellison spent $500 million on his (failed) grand plan to feed the world

We're probably going to need these...

#climatechange

https://luxurylaunches.com/other_stuff/larry-ellison-island-farming-plan-01032025.php

Daniel Khent 10mo ago

Geothermally optimistic

#renewableenergy #geothermal

Repost: mobile YouTube share added tracking token ... pure evil

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOIlMdIqXbQ

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Connie

“We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and there is no learning. There is no learning without having to pose a question. And a question requires doubt. People search for certainty. But there is no certainty. People are terrified — how can you live and not know? It is not odd at all. You only think you know, as a matter of fact. And most of your actions are based on incomplete knowledge and you really don't know what it is all about, or what the purpose of the world is, or know a great deal of other things. It is possible to live and not know.”

— Richard P. Feynman, The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman

Daniel Khent 10mo ago

Great quote.

Daniel Khent 10mo ago

NASA images reveal full extent of toxic golden river devastating region

#environment #pollution

https://www.the-express.com/news/world-news/162835/nasa-toxic-river-south-africa

Daniel Khent 10mo ago

Natural sequestration of carbon dioxide by plants, is in decline?

A lot of factors: availability of natural soil nutrients, wildfires, vegetative growth in sub-Arctic regions, etc

#climatechange

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/feb/26/plants-losing-appetite-for-carbon-dioxide-amid-effects-of-warming-climate

https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wea.7668

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𝚋𝚊𝚝𝚜𝚒𝚚

Wow! This is a mix of fascination, horror and terror. Tnx for sharing, nostr:nprofile1qqs2498k5jvxt3wzm3d388tg87jawat542aplr63ptk6qq2gyeyquxcprfmhxue69uhhqatjv9mxjerp9ehx7um5wghxcctwvshsz9nhwden5te0wfjkccte9ekk7um5wgh8qatz9uq32amnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwv3sk6atn9e5k7tc0s0rff

Daniel Khent 10mo ago

How do people get this stuff funded?

Daniel Khent 10mo ago

A century of extra carbon dioxide boosts photosynthesis in tropical trees

Mother Nature to the rescue? As long as we don't cut and burn them all...

#climatechange

https://phys.org/news/2025-02-century-extra-carbon-dioxide-boosts.html#google_vignette

Daniel Khent 10mo ago

Scientists Put a Human Language Gene Into Mice And Changed Their Voice

Doesn't leave scifi much of a place to go...

#scifi #science

https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-put-a-human-language-gene-into-mice-and-changed-their-voice

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𝚋𝚊𝚝𝚜𝚒𝚚

I was only aware of the existence of this poem a few days ago. It amazes me. This theme of ominipresence of the dead evoked an interesting «lecture» at an UNESCO conference by this author, which fiatjaf appreciates too. Unfortunatly, politics obscured his most fascinating works.

If one day you have interest and time, read it:

https://olavodecarvalho.org/les-plus-exclus-des-exclus/

Daniel Khent 10mo ago

I will check it out.