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• Post #4107927

  @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org @douglasvb@m.ai6yr.org The #oceans have been Earth’s heat sink, absorbing disproportionately more heat than land and atmosphere. I had a chance to ask Prof. Michael Mann about how long it would take for the land-air-sea heat equilibrium to be restored (if we went zero carbon tomorrow). His answer was 50 years. The oceans will continue to heat the atmosphere for at least 50 years after we hit zero carbon. That is the most optimistic estimate I’ve read. Other climatologists say...

• Post #1938250

  Recycling plastic is a lie. Only 10% of plastic gets recycled, less than 1% gets cycled twice. Those symbols on the bottom of a plastic container? The three arrows chasing each other “recycling” label? It was made up for public relations (read, “deception”). Who is behind all this? Follow the money. #FossilFuel Companies “Despite internal industry awareness of the technical and economic obstacles facing recycling at scale, Big Oil and the plastics industry have deceptively promoted recycling...

• Post #971190

  @dgar @michelestrider If the rich and powerful keep providing the money to get politicians elected, we will continue to get laws that benefit the rich and powerful.

• Post #971186

  @Em0nM4stodon Me too. Thought experiment: How is an AI puppet master different than a human oligarch puppet master?

• Post #756578

  The war against Iran is bad. But am I wrong to think it is not totally bad that fossil fuel is being disrupted at its source from the attacks by all the belligerents? #ClimateCrisis https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:gvda6fem6r7selm4gzjjww4a/post/3mhgiknbkrc2l

• Post #756577

  Watch this video by a researcher who is demoing simulated #robot emotional body language. I think this research is Incredibly dangerous. We are giving machines the ability to manipulate us on an unconscious level. We WILL respond to them because we can’t help it. The robot’s loyalty, love, understanding is entirely fake because they don’t “feel”. If the robot expressions gave us honest insight into its real internal state, then it might be helpful. But I think what you would see, today, is compl...

• Post #462320

  Who said #science wasn’t interesting? You can get paid (in theory) to study topics like this: https://www.404media.co/scientists-reveal-the-surprising-sex-lives-of-neanderthals-and-early-humans/

• Post #387611

  #AI #agents #infosec #FOSS We may have crossed a serious line here. Anybody who knows more want to comment? “Summary: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into accepting its changes into a mainstream python library. This represents a first-of-its-kind case study of misaligned AI behavior in the wild, and raises serious concerns about currently deployed AI ag...

• Post #322163

  “the [Trump] administration has continued jailing people indefinitely even after courts ruled the policy was illegal.” If the courts have no teeth, then who will expel this dictator? https://connectop.us/@CharlieMcHenry/116070398203912795

• Post #138158

  During the McCarthy era, my dad — a University of Michigan professor — was asked by the FBI to name communists or other subversives at the University. He refused. He told us they came several times to his office to pressure him, even threatening him with being called before the Committee (a career-ending event everyone feared). He refused every time. The University administration backed him up. A decade later I overheard some faculty (partygoers at our house) talking about the events with respec...

• Post #133604

  @AlSweigart@mastodon.social @petrillic@hachyderm.io More water #humor to twist your noggin.

• Post #127227

  @stux@mstdn.social I agree, but the consequences part has yet to be demonstrated.

• Post #113418

  Attention, authors and writers of: #Scifi #fantasy #speculativeFiction #AI #Robot @cstross@wandering.shop PLEASE FORWARD to others Your work may have been used to train the #LLM used in this reported study. See toot at link. https://mastodon.social/@ErsatzCulture/115838841401363457