Personally, I don't think the world will even get to 10 billion, or even 9 billion. The major population models don't account for things like climate change, better education, better economics, and things like that. The world is developing so fast that unless we actively prevent all developing countries from improving quality of life through draconian foreign policies, then we are not likely to see that many people

That sounds about right, the numbers I've read shows an acre of algae offsets about 225 cars worth. But I actually think this is a pretty big number though when considering how much area we have available to us, including what's covered in ocean water. And in comparison it takes 240 trees to offset the CO2 of one car.

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Countries in the European Union have approved a landmark law that will ensure all new cars sold from 2035 must have zero emissions.

Poland voted against the law, while Italy, Bulgaria and Romania abstained.

The agreement was delayed for weeks after Germany called for an exemption for cars running on e-fuels.

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I wonder how much of that is reliant on extreme fertilizer and pesticide use

Writer confuses their inability to manage time with new technology for a general "addiction"

The jury is not out on SpaceX and the problems they are solving. Affordable launch platforms are the limitation of the space industry. What they have achieved already has opened up the door for many companies that do not have the budgets of the large companies and governments. The hearings on SpaceX had little to do with the budgets proposed. Former astronauts referred to it as unethical and said SpaceX would kill people. We also were completely reliant on Russian launch platforms before SpaceX was successful. Now, 99% of the industry uses Falcon 9. It was 100% worth it to solve the problems they did, and they have advanced the space industry because of it.

I agree with the physics point. I am just happy to see someone actually taking risks in the name of science.

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FOR YEARS, I sat down to work each morning, realizing hours later that I felt drained, but got little done. Instead of writing, I spent my time texting, emailing, and mostly aimlessly browsing through news sites, blogs, and social networks. Every click triggered another. I tried to regain control by using an app called Freedom that blocked my computer online access for fixed periods of time. Sometimes it helped, especially when I had a work deadline looming. Sometimes it didn’t. But trying to control work time was only part of the struggle. I kept feeling the irresistible urge to pull out my phone wherever I went. At that point, I blamed myself. After all, I was the girl who spent hours playing video games well into college. But something happened in 2015 that made me realize that something much bigger was awry.

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I think a better analogy is a machine that knows what smells are produced by items in a room and therefore can deduce how the room smells.

Chat GPT knows what produces a humorous effect and can identify it, but it doesn't experience it.

I cant read the full article, but if a giant algae farm can only offset 8000 cars, the process cant be that efficient.

https://fortune.com/2022/07/05/brilliant-planet-startup-marine-algae-carbon-capture-climate-change/

Talking about what we care about is not speculation.

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This joke kills when you tell it live. Never seen it fail. Key is intonation on the last two lines: "they gave you a chihuahua?" "they game me a chihuahua??," each in the same interrogative tone.

Red team: "It's never getting any better, how absolutely dare you question my speculation."

Blue team: "We're going to wake up with an eternal Christmas morning, how absolutely dare you question my speculation."

Go ahead throw your vote away: "I love how the chatbot is growing beyond chat and I look forward to seeing bot-with-tools in the near future."

Countries in the European Union have approved a landmark law that will ensure all new cars sold from 2035 must have zero emissions.

Poland voted against the law, while Italy, Bulgaria and Romania abstained.

The agreement was delayed for weeks after Germany called for an exemption for cars running on e-fuels.

I dont know, nursing doesn't appeal to me

If a machine could correctly identify smells. Would it have a sense of smell?

People who knew the technology thought Space X wasn't an engineering problem that would be financially worth it to solve. That jury is still out on that.

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This would really change modern physics which would be a hell of a lot more unlikely. I'm not saying it won't work, I just think it's a way different situation.

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FOR YEARS, I sat down to work each morning, realizing hours later that I felt drained, but got little done. Instead of writing, I spent my time texting, emailing, and mostly aimlessly browsing through news sites, blogs, and social networks. Every click triggered another. I tried to regain control by using an app called Freedom that blocked my computer online access for fixed periods of time. Sometimes it helped, especially when I had a work deadline looming. Sometimes it didn’t. But trying to control work time was only part of the struggle. I kept feeling the irresistible urge to pull out my phone wherever I went. At that point, I blamed myself. After all, I was the girl who spent hours playing video games well into college. But something happened in 2015 that made me realize that something much bigger was awry.

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I said "or they don't have one". If you don't believe that AGI can be kept a secret, then they don't have one.

> People believing the corporate PR that they have an AGI or "proto-AGI" are incoherent. Why would they release such a thing to the public? Why would they let their rivals have access to such a revolutionary tool? ...

> So, either a corporation wouldn't release an AGI to the public, or they don't have one. ...

> And in order to counter this, we'll need non-profit organizations making AIs, and not just believe whatever PR that the corporations come up with.

[Edit: See edit above. Even if I was quoting sentences in context, I quoted it out of context to the overall point of the post, which I realized last night and today. Apologies.]

It doesn't matter. The first AGI being made means the technology to create it exists, and so will also be created elsewhere. OpenAI thought they had a permanent monopoly on image generation and kept it to themselves in the name of "safety", then MidJourney and Stable Diffusion came out. Not revealing an AGI will only delay it's public release, not prevent it from ever happening.

I mean... Turning CO2 into plastic is a good idea, but the problem is collecting it.

"continously produce a bioplastic from CO2 in the air" is great but when you consider the fact that air contains 0.75g CO2 per cubic meter you'll soon see that the problem with this method is similar to that of carbon capture technology.
Sure, a bacteria might be many times cheaper but you still need to access enormous amounts of air for it to even be useful

You write just like a bot.