Positive futures where climate change is a good thing, even a very good thing If all the rain forests are cut down and burned to make farms and ranches, do they need food more than trees? If China can plant billions of trees each year, can the rain forests be replanted in what is todays
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Ricard Solé @ricard_sole How complex can cognition be in brain organoids? Since they do not sense or act on their environments, they lack cognitive complexity or agency. Without the organism, the “spherical brain” (my drawing) is a fascinating window to evolution and disease but not to actual cognition. https://pic.x.com/6r4kshpocm Replying to @ricard_sole Jeff’s brain was
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Peter D Carter @PCarterClimate AMAZON BURNING LIKE NEVER BEFORE at https://x.com/PCarterClimate/status/1830125910017916950 DRAFT: I can only sketch some of the main responses to global climate change shouting. I think I will win my bet that none of the companies or groups will change. Not even when hundreds of millions die. When most lives are cheap, no
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@DvirGur I had to go to Google Scholar and such sites to find your publications. The links on your site always fail. It recommends clearing the cookies, but that is not a good idea. “Too many redirects” generally means you guys need to look carefully at cookie fiddling and “keep it simple”. This link (below)
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Dvir Gur @DvirGur Have you ever wondered how animals like fish, and chameleons rapidly change their color to camouflage or communicate? Our recent work shows that Zebrafish quickly alter their structural colors by changing the spacing between their intracellular crystals using motor proteins Replying to @DvirGur Is there any chance the electric fish works the
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Art Berman @aeberman12 Natural gas combined cycle is cheaper than wind and solar with backup based on Lazard’s 2024 levelized cost of energy No way to get away from natural gas or coal for peak demand periods at present #energy #EnergyTransition #ClimateActionNow #renewables #NetZero #EnergyStorage https://pic.x.com/jhl16z3j1s Replying to @aeberman12 The energy stored in “chemical bonds”
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Roger Grosse @RogerGrosse Amortized variational inference is neither amortized nor variational nor inference. x.com/jpillowtime/st… Jonathan Pillow @jpillowtime Amortize means to “to pay off a debt with regular payments” But in amortized inference you pay a big up-front cost to train an inference network, then inference is cheap per datapoint. Isn’t that the opposite of amortization?
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All human languages, all domains, all places, all devices – global open resources for all humans Computer memory and processors changed the face of human navigation in cities, so too can it change the face of navigation through fragmented and Byzantine sets of rules for every discipline and topic. It is not only memory devices
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Richard Collins, The Internet Foundation: This is a bit of an odd question, but I mean it seriously. What would people think of “Olympic war games”? Rather than ad hoc wars and armed conflicts like Israal Palestine, or Ukraine Russia, or dozens of countries having armed conflicts. Suppose wars were supervised and controlled. Part of
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Dear SETI, Looking at the whole Internet, and the potential of true AIs to allow systems to essentially live forever, I realized that exploration and development of galaxies is likely the norm, not the exception in the universe. An evolved natural lifeform might well develop systems that record all knowledge and process it. The system
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