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It comes on top of more visible good news—the IEA said this weak that oil demand around the world is softening because of “surging” sales of electric vehicles. In China, demand for gasoline will peak this year or next and then decline sharply. Britain, where the coal era was born, will close it’s last coal-fired power plant at the end of this month... See more
Bill McKibben • Silent Solar
From Bill McKibben’s substack.
“Last year, I had a life-changing experience at 90 years old. I went to space, after decades of playing an iconic science-fiction character who was exploring the universe. I thought I would experience a deep connection with the immensity around us, a deep call for endless exploration.
"I was absolutely wrong. The strongest feeling, that dominated
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Cities Face 'Severe Degradation' Without Meaningful Climate Action, Warn Experts - Health Policy Watch
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Ok, so the rumor about OpenAI Orion is that it's "100 times more powerful than GPT-4".
Let's forget that this is ill-defined, and a rumor. It implies gruesomely superhuman generalist ability.
The tech media describes this potentiality like so:
"The model’s development builds on lessons from OpenAI’s past efforts to make interactions with AI more
... See moreHuman religion begins with our ability to populate our minds with imagined other minds.
Storr, The Science of Storytelling
The entire story of a civilization, or a community, centers around energy: its availability; its production; the uses to which it is put. Whether need outstrips them all.
‘We don’t know where the tipping point is’: climate expert on potential collapse of Atlantic circulation
Jonathan Wattstheguardian.com