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by climatologist 3y ago
Almost all foods are sprayed with glyphosate and atrazine which are also known carcinogens. There is basically no way to avoid synthetic chemicals and their harmful effects. Most animal feed on factory farms is even worse so if you eat meat
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by climatologist 3y ago
UFOs are a distraction. The CIA maintains several psyops in circulation for keeping people distracted and giving them something to talk about. The aura of secrecy around aliens and UFOs is part and parcel of what makes the psyop so effectiv
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by climatologist 3y ago
A technical forum like HN would be that place.
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by climatologist 3y ago
Who is going to maintain the AI?
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by climatologist 3y ago
Isn't the entire pipeline for making chips highly toxic to begin with so what exactly does it mean to go "green"? It's not like they can change the chemical byproducts of making wafers and chips.
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by climatologist 3y ago
It's important to use precise language when talking about software that has the appearance of linguistic intelligence because terms like "learn", "intelligent", and "sentient" can be confusing to people wh
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by climatologist 3y ago
It doesn't learn. It simple completes statistically plausible sequences of tokens.
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Munk Debate on Artificial Intelligence(munkdebates.com)
1 points by climatologist 3y ago|1 comments
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by climatologist 3y ago
Yes, that's a good way of putting it.
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by climatologist 3y ago
I already mentioned advertising and how it's the only real economic activity enabled by social networks. Unless Twitter enables some kind of payment processing and gives the participants the ability to actually exchange money for goods
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by climatologist 3y ago
What is the value of the social network other than the network and the interactions it enables? I think there is a fundamental disconnect here that people keep glossing over because abstractly it seems like there must be some way to convert
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by climatologist 3y ago
I think it's more the fact that road rage incidents have been increasing ever since the lockdowns, e.g. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/road-rage-shootings-see...
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by climatologist 3y ago
He's trying to get more people to commit to giving Twitter $8/month. I'm not sure if it's going to work because I suspect people will just change their browsing habits and continue not paying. Next CEO will have to figur
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by climatologist 3y ago
I guess he's trying to get more people to pay money for access to Twitter but in exchange they still must view intrusive ads in the replies. If Twitter is unsustainable without such measures then it's unlikely that the changes he&