The top half, or the bottom?

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Half of my brain disintegrated reading this.

Point your fingers at the U.S, EU, and China. Don't blame the others as the carbon they've emitted amounts to nothing like those 3.

>but scientists aren’t sure how quickly the ice sheet could melt.

It's gonna take decades to completely melt and people will gradually adapt by migrating to places in the world where sea level is not a problem.

I am not a climate denier, bit I think we already hit some thresholds. Like the permafrost in the north are already melting and emmiting huge amounts of methane. Not sure if there is a was to stop all this. Reducing CO2 is still important tho

The next election is going to be scary with deepfakes. YouTube and all these social media companies need to be a step ahead.

Healthy and cancerous cells have almost exactly the same DNA. Minus a few mutations. CRISPR can target them, but might not necessarily be able to do anything useful at those locations.

CRISPR can't tell the difference between cells, it only targets specific sequences. Cancer can be caused by many different mutations, some of which won't cause it on its own. A bad target could lead to complications.

CRISPR has to work on all of the cells, otherwise the stragglers will start a new tumor.

Altogether, for CRISPR to work needs a safe target where the change will be effective and it has to wipe the floor with all of the cancer. Which means the patient needs to be lucky for it to even be a possibility, even if the success rate is high once administered.

(Source: mostly things I've read over the past decade and a half, I may be out of date)

Bold of you to assume they think such a point would be there at all.

Its only 20% electrical output, about the industry standart.

The rest is Thermal output, they combined solar electricity and solar heat in one pannel.

I did, they are interesting :o I hope that goes somewhere, if not just to quell my fear of mortality '>->

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>Just out of curiosity, what year do you believe humanity will achieve AGI?

It won't. Technology is peaking. In the coming decades sociopolitical and environmental stressors will cause technology to enter an inevitable decline and we will enter an era of degrowth and survival.

It is already happening. Software is in decline as we speak. Developers are less productive than ever. Software in general is more broken and error-prone than ever. Understanding of technological fundamentals is lower than ever. An influx of new, green engineers who never bothered to learn how any of this shit works has displaced the old retired graybeards who built it all. Web companies are failing left and right, their castles built on mountains of sand crumbling beneath them as they run out hands to pile the grains back up.

My counter argument to your pie in the sky notions of infinite growth is that GPT and LLMs in general are in a period of logistic growth. They were advancing slowly, then all at once, and soon will reach a limit.

I never said anything cancels out those emissions. Infact, it was you who said that some emissions cancel out a lack of emissions, am equally ridiculous claim.

If you think pointing out facts makes me a shill, I think you're just unable to admit when you're wrong.

Everyone is wrong from time to time, it's how you respond to being wrong that defines you.

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I actually am very happy with all the info i get from google. the things i search for, the results i get, the ads that are tailored to my searches and what i say in front of alexa and my phone. So far i really have no issues with what i've need to get done, or do. I enjoy the ease of life with all this information at my finger tips and the amount of things possible from it.. i really don't care at all how much they know about me, because so far, they just keep offering more of what i want, and giving it to me, so it's a win-win.

Our models can’t even recreate data that has already happened. Almost worthless.

Nothing cancels out those emissions. They're still going into the atmosphere and contributing to the overall greenhouse gases.

You seem like you're a shill for China, so this conversation isn't going anywhere. Wasn't China caught recently as being the only country on the planet secretly using ozone depleting gases?

To make you own decisions, you need agency. Most people have very limited agency. Most don't get to choose where or how their food is grown, how or where their energy needs are met, many have only limited control over where they live (a function of work / cost), how infrastructure they rely upon is created, how the industries they rely upon are regulated and supplied etc etc... the big moving parts in civilisation are controlled by a handful of entities; not "the people".

80% efficiency is absolutely huge compared to the common 25%. To extract that much energy from the sun is revolutionary. I wonder the costs.

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>It doesn't matter what they're doing with renewables

Then why did you lie about what they are doing?

Instead of investing in renewable energy, they're doing everything they can to contribute to global warming.

If you hadn't lied about it, I wouldn't have mentioned it.

>by adding an additional 90 coal plants, you're really offsetting all that progress and it's pretty meaningless now.

China needs more power. They should not be building coal, but it's not fair to say that it's "cancelling out" anything.

They added 150GW of power between coal and renewables. Instead of it being 150GW of coal, it's 120GW of renewables and only 25GW of coal.

That cancels out a lot of coal emissions - and saying they're not investing in renewables is a lie. You lied.

>If they were serious they wouldn't be proceeding with new coal plants.

It's incredibly easy to criticize a country that is trying to develop itself, especially in areas that lack the technology and infrastructure to support more advanced power plants.

It's especially easy to do while you sit in a country that emitted far more emissions from coal than China ever has when it went through the same development cycle centuries ago.

Compared to the US or Europe, China is doing an incredible job of bringing power to millions of people while minimizing emissions.

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To clarify, the US has emitted about 2x more emissions than China since the industrial revolution. And the EU has emitted about 1.5x more.

That doesn't excuse China, but it does make the idea that China isn't doing enough to limit emissions laughably ridiculous when it comes from the EU and US.

I acknowledge all your points, but still disagree with your overall logic. It doesn't matter what they're doing with renewables, by adding an additional 90 coal plants, you're really offsetting all that progress and it's pretty meaningless now. If they were serious they wouldn't be proceeding with new coal plants. I'm not sure anyone can explain why the coal plants are needed except because they're cheap and fast, which has been china's motto for decades.

>Instead of investing in renewable energy, they're doing everything they can to contribute to global warming.

This isn't an accurate or fair claim by any measure.

China has issues, and it needs to address them, but straight up lying isn't helpful to the conversation.

In 2022, China added 26.8GW of new coal power capacity.

In the same year, China added 125GW of new solar and wind power.

While the US is investing about $141 billion in new renewable energy, China has invested a whopping $546 billion in 2022.

The idea that China isn't making efforts to build out a clean grid just isn't true. Yes, they are expanding coal power generation, and they are the nation with the leading CO2e emissions - and they do need to address both of those problems.

But to suggest that China isn't committed to building renewable energy just isn't accurate by any stretch of the imagination. They're doing more to expand renewable than the US and EU combined.

So a serious CME could hit Earth in 20 hours. 1 AU in 20 hours. That’s ~4.6 million mph and literally billions of tons of charged particles.

Anton Petrov had a recent episode on the CME of March 13th with some video from the SDO that might give you some sense of scale & speed.

How close would these drones be to the Sun? 1/2 AU? 1/4 AU?