In modern societies, you can't have prosperity and social control. Borders, exploited minorities, women confined in "traditional" roles are all hugely expensive. The fascist project is fundamentally an impoverishment project. It's also, fundamentally, opposed to capitalism and free markets […]
Cancer survivor and brilliant student can't do a PhD on cancer at Cambridge because of mean and stupid visa rules. You voted for Brexit? You voted against cancer research (and research in general).
This is why I think AI makes *so much sense* for LinkedIn, a website that perfectly exemplifies thoughtless writing There is really not all that much space between the human-generated text and the machine-generated text over there. Thoughtless, factless, unchecked, vapid, centrist text is the norm
To give an example how the 22B the UK wants to spend on CCS is misguided, getting the whole steel and cement sectors to zero using today's known technologies (and a small bit of forest planting) would cost about half that... The steel sector, to be fair, is already doing the right thing. The […]
If you look at the level of investment for the production of steel and cement, you'll find they're broadly in line with the price of carbon. *Despite* the free emissions. But are these investments going to decarbonation? We can't know, but in general, yes: they're about energy efficiency, and […]
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/10/neo-nazis-head-to-encrypted-simplex-chat-app-bail-on-telegram/?&utm_social-type=owned One, lol. Two, Elon will make daddy Vlad unhappy... Daddy Vlad likes his trolls.
https://climatelaundry.substack.com/p/carbon-capture-or-government-capture?r=jlhnz&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true An argument against that op-ed I'm behind. (I have run the numbers myself: CCS is a dangerous gamble. Go for the rest first)
Following a social media post in support of LGBTQ+ game developers, Godot is now getting review-bombed on Steam. After 7 years of glowing reviews, this game engine has received nearly 1,000 negative reviews in the past week. #godotengine#GameDev#GameDevelopment
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42113-024-00217-5 So someone did the work, proving fundamental limits in the current AI approaches. Now for the billions of money to evaporate, a number of suckers to go bankrupt and huge energy and carbon savings to be realised.
