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by gmuslera 3y ago
It is a problem that will be eventually solved, either because we discovered the remaining species, or that the unknown ones are all already (and probably recently enough) extinct, or that we run out of explorers/humans. But I'm n
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by gmuslera 3y ago
We live in a simulation, Earth have no real shape, it is tailored for the observer.
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by gmuslera 3y ago
What if I bet all my money at the lotto and win? That is the wrong question... what if I lose? Even not having a clue of the science behind this predictions betting up to everything is not smart, or is plain criminal if you try to convince
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by gmuslera 3y ago
The value it haves for you may exceed or not its price. But "you" is an important part of that equation.
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by gmuslera 3y ago
The elephants in the room are 1984 and Brave New World. Not all science fiction is about technology, but it usually is about future. And some of the stories written as a warning ends being inspiration for some players, even if it is somethi
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by gmuslera 3y ago
I think there are some good ideas there, but some of the points ad the conclusion is not. First, not all books are the same. Even if you limit your case of study to non fiction books. For me (at least, some) books are like a conversation, y
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by gmuslera 3y ago
There are English words that reminds me the alien language from Arrival (or it’s original short story), that was different spoken from written.
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by gmuslera 3y ago
There had been rumors about doomsday devices in the past. But even without that, second and third order effects should be counted too. At least for big or widespread enough events, because we live in a complex system.
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by gmuslera 3y ago
There is always the meta approaches. Imagine that the malicious actor is a government to which OpenAI must comply with its orders, like US for starters. We know since Snowden that can be secret orders that companies must comply with that in
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by gmuslera 3y ago
It have some restrictions on i.e generating something based on works from a century back, but it is impressive. Told it to generate images based on the song Vincent (that generated some Van Gogh style drawings), then ask it to generate the
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by gmuslera 3y ago
If you high enough you may reach the controlled environment of the ISS.
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by gmuslera 3y ago
"The remaining snowbanks". A lot have melted, along with the also reflective ice. The marginal increase in how reflecting they are just doesn't compare with how much heat absorbing are areas without snow or ice, there are in
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by gmuslera 3y ago
Civilization existed for around 10-15k years, around the time climate got stable enough to get agriculture in a scale to support big cities. The changes that had been since then in global climate weren't sudden enough to put that in da
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by gmuslera 3y ago
Not just an abstract "the government" that can scan your chats. This implies people all along the chain (from operators to politicians, for profit or power), private companies involved in this, processes (from sophisticated AIs to
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by gmuslera 3y ago
You can't never say yes. It will definitely a "no" when we find clear evidence of intelligent life elsewhere, but we should know for sure when we inspect every other place in the universe, in all history of it, and that is bi
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by gmuslera 3y ago
It is not an one-off or local event. It is part of a trend and not an isolated event. All the previous months were pretty hot or directly record breaking, and the trend seem to be going to even higher extremes, specially at global scale.
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by gmuslera 3y ago
Messing with very complex systems and expecting that random odds benefit instead of doom you and all mankind is a bad bet. And this kind of things gives another hint on how complex the system is, how many players influence and are influence
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by gmuslera 3y ago
I've seen a documentary about this: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091630/ Reality is stranger than fiction.
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by gmuslera 3y ago
Global yearly average temperature doesn’t mean local temperature on a certain day. That “a little hotter” may mean killer dry bulb temperatures over vast regions for weeks. Right now there is a heatwave in Brazil (including the south, so no
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by gmuslera 3y ago
"Better" is a loaded word. Behind it there is a lot of criteria, priorities, ways to measure, subjetivity and more. Your context for that word may be different than mine.
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by gmuslera 3y ago
Tell us who you are and you will be able to access “anonymously” (wink, wink) those sites that you don’t want to disclose you visit. Maybe IPs deserve more privacy than people.
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by gmuslera 3y ago
This is not about summer. It is about the very start of the spring, just after the end of winter. "Difficult" for summer is an understatement.
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by gmuslera 3y ago
The one in https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/seaice/ (make sure you are watching the right hemisphere) is more interactive and you can see clearly year by year how for 40 years things were not so different, excep
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by gmuslera 3y ago
Another flavor of the Tragedy of the Commons. Everyone optimized by their local, short term priorities.
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by gmuslera 3y ago
So, lets bet really everything that all the climate scientists are wrong so we can keep making profits. I get it.
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by gmuslera 3y ago
Seasons, global climate related cycles like El Niño, unpredictable weather and so on push temperatures up and down, eventually it will get colder next winter. But the complex system that is the planet have a lot of tipping points, that once
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by gmuslera 3y ago
It costs orders more than extracting it in the first place. Unless you take into account the long term cost of keep extracting oil, then is infinite vs a finite cost, no matter how high is it.
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by gmuslera 3y ago
The glaciers are not the only parts of the system affected by the warming. And with a complex system you get a lot of positive feedback loops that with more warming they push add more warming on their own (either more emissions like the one
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by gmuslera 3y ago
The debate is outdated, not because somewhere in the future would it be possible to switch to batteries and renewable energy generation if everything remains the same, but because everything won’t remain the same. We’ve been pushing the nat
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by gmuslera 3y ago
That can be read in two ways. Too long or no survivors of the process.

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