Existential Risk is short-term: “...if you're under ~50, unaligned AI might kill you and everyone you know. Not your great-great-(...)-great-grandchildren in the year 30,000 AD. Not even your children. You and everyone you know.” https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/KDjEogAqWNTdddF9g/long-termism-vs-existential-risk
“How are objects represented in the human brain and in deep convolutional neural networks? We show that human visual cortex and dCNN models contain a texture-like representation of objects.” https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2115302119
Clean energy is buried at the bottom of abandoned oil wells https://www.vox.com/recode/23024204/geothermal-energy-heat-oil-gas-wells
Can we deduce, from the equations of classical physics alone, that the rooster crow does not cause the sun to rise? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6slug9rjaIQ
The $7.6 Trillion Quest for Longer Life https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2022-04-21/the-7-6-trillion-quest-for-longer-life-video
UK to get lots of "baseload" solar and wind from Morocco with 3800 km long subsea electricity cables! https://xlinks.co/morocco-uk-power-project/
NVIDIA’s Tiny New AI Transforms Photos Into Full 3D Scenes in Mere Seconds https://singularityhub.com/2022/03/27/nvidias-tiny-new-ai-transforms-photos-into-full-3d-scenes-in-mere-seconds/
Replicating and extending the grabby aliens model https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/iwWjBH2rBF7ExXeEG/replicating-and-extending-the-grabby-aliens-model
Juergen Schmidhuber chats with Vladimir Putin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkuAFiDYsf0
MIT’s Low-Cost Fabrication Method for Thin Mirrors and Silicon Wafers Could Be a Game-Changer https://scitechdaily.com/mit-low-cost-fabrication-method-for-thin-mirrors-and-silicon-wafers-could-be-a-game-changer/
"It took rolling black-outs, a change in public consciousness, and my run for governor, but our six-year long effort to save Diablo Canyon nuclear plant in California has finally succeeded! Our victory should give hope to pro-nuclear people everywhere. If we can save nuclear power in California, the birthplace of the anti-nuclear movement, then we can save nuclear anywhere." https://michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/we-saved-diablo-canyon?s=r
“…the lifting of the Black Sea blockade is simply vital to Ukraine having a vibrant self-sustaining economy” https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1520333220964933632.html
"...the USA spends $10 million a year supporting each and every active nuclear weapon in it's arsenal. That's $10 billion a year. Russia's entire 2021 defense budget was estimated at $41.6 billion for EVERYTHING." https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1520180151992131584.html
Ukrainian troops in Donbas only have to survive for a few more days and Russia might run out of steam. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1520313940688912384.html
“Segregation has been allowed to go so far that we have parallel societies in Sweden,” the Social Democrat prime minister told a news conference. “We live in the same country but in completely different realities. We will have to reassess our previous truths and make tough decisions.”
— Sweden’s failed integration creates ‘parallel societies’, says PM after riots
This acknowledgment is a good first step. But until they are ready to admit that certain cultures are incompatible with secular liberalism, nothing will change.
The next step is to accept that there are huge cognitive inequalities that cannot be overcome by education and integration. One only needs to look at the difference between training the Afghan forces vs. helping the Ukrainian forces to see this. It takes longer to teach certain people the concept of sorting numerically than to teach Ukrainians to have a fighting chance against a superpower.
Why these realizations are important is exemplified by the article itself mentioning that "the country’s liberal freedom of speech laws" are abused by extremists. By which they mean that someone burned a replaceable object to which others reacted with mass violence.
More than 60% of every group gets stressed by political discussion. Fascinating!