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Ironically, perhaps, you can use AI for this. Currently, we are heading toward a 2.6-3 degrees warming (instead of 1.5).…
Recursive self-improvement: As a scifi fan, I’m happy to be worried about it in the abstract. Grey goo, too. But…
This is a solid point, but I’d like to suggest one key difference between AI and climate change: I think…
I’m a mathematician, but I don’t work on fluid dynamics. I do take your broader point that, in some cases,…
I would be interested to hear more about the assumptions that would imply climate change ends civilization within your lifetime.…
There is a lot to reflect on here but, having already commented enough, I won’t. Just one thing on climate…
Lovely to read these reflections on David, who was a wonderful man. He taught me as an undergraduate and was…
Of course, he fired (on a Friday night) the person who did his job by acting lawfully in notifying Congress about a report about Trump's corruption. (Did you forget, the monster-child was impeached earlier this year, and then acquitted by the lawless Repugs in the Senate, including some of those who were busy doing insider-trading on coronavirus information.)
This country is a disgrace.
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