Reminds me of the grains of rice on a chessboard doubling each square. The end result suprised the king and the time horizons of these things is going to suprise humanity.
AI belonging to Anthropic, who's CEO penned the optimistic 'Machines of Loving Grace', just automated away 40% of software engineering work on a leading freelancer platform.
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Chance of 'city-killer' asteroid 2024 YR4 smashing into Earth rises yet again to 3.1%, NASA reports
(www.livescience.com)
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AI 'brain decoder' can read a person's thoughts with just a quick brain scan and almost no training
(www.livescience.com)
Global temperatures rose 0.4°C in the last 2 years - much more than expected - and eliminating sulphur from maritime fuels may account for some of it.
Prof Eliot Jacobson has the decadal increase at 0.32°C/Decade, which given we are at 1.5°C now means ~2.5°C around 2050 and ~4°C by 2100
However, he also thinks the trend isn't linear and is quadratic, meaning an increasing rate of change, so that 4°C could be low
https://climatecasino.net/2025/01/betting-on-the-end-of-the-world-2025-edition/
We've found oxygen, but hard to say it's life
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/pdf/2013/05/aa21014-12.pdf
https://science.nasa.gov/universe/exoplanets/oxygen-on-exoplanets-isnt-proof-of-life/
Global temperatures rose 0.4°C in the last 2 years - much more than expected - and eliminating sulphur from maritime fuels may account for some of it.
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Reminds me of R2D2