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Not for background roles though. There are no stars in that world.

That's what I don't get about these demands. If Hollywood wants to scan background actors and reuse them instead of paying them a day rate, then surely almost anyone can be scanned…

But we're not talking about what you, random HN poster, did twenty years ago. You asked, "Why are weather stations even still a meme in these discussions?" and the answer is "becau…

No. Error bars on satellite measurements are OK (not sure what they are exactly but not too bad), but for anything before the 1970s the error bars are wide. 0.5 degrees at best but…

Because governments announce new "records" based on single thermometers that are located on the tarmac of airports, at the moment that jet fighters are landing.

The first is the insectopocalypse, which has been debunked: https://theconversation.com/insect-apocalypse-not-so-fast-at... The second is a prediction for 300 years in the future. …

You're conflating telemetry with permissions. macOS doesn't attempt to stop apps reporting how they're used, why would it? Instead Apple gathers such data and then keeps it for its…

But realistically what those scripts do is always download and run even more code, and you probably aren't reviewing that.

You missed the followup. People investigated BEST and discovered it was doing the same things with the same sorts of mistakes as other climatological temperature datasets. For exam…

More than you could imagine. Climatology is unique in that records can be "broken" by lower temperatures than previous records. https://retractionwatch.com/2021/08/16/will-the-real…

The ecology isn't collapsing either.

It is not uncharted. The Vikings were doing agriculture in Greenland, the Romans grew wine in England as far north as Lincolnshire, bison were roaming at altitudes that cannot be f…

> But I'd still say it's really bad and we should try to figure out in advance how to minimise this outcome. For sure. But I don't see what's AI specific about it. If the AI doom s…

Ah right I see. That sort of thing sounds OK for primary/elementary school. You'd expect science at that level to be focused on soft stuff. Expecting kids of that age to do real ex…

I understand where you're going with this but I always found environmentalists to be quite keen on woodworking tbh, in the sense that they much prefer things made of wood to things…

You must be right that there's an element of that, but I still think most of it especially at the lower levels of the orgs is that these people genuinely have adopted the "if a civ…

The threat of more aggressive tax audits or regulations or whatever is always there. It doesn't have to be spelled out. Piss off the government and they have a billion ways to make…

Yeah that works great up until the people who distribute memos act like Facebook, and then the people who sell you ink, and then the phone companies, and then .... Really why is th…

By foreign actors do you just mean foreign people in general or something more specific. Because using the word "actors" give what you say an ominous overtone, but I can't figure o…

Can you? Let's say tomorrow they reduced the amount of, I dunno, woodworking class and replaced it with more physics or maths. Those topics are pretty neutral. I'm not sure how any…

I mean, as pointed out by a sibling comment, the reason it's so hard to shut those things down is that they benefit a lot of people and there's huge organic demand. Even the morali…

Pull the plug is meant literally. As in, turn off the power to the AI. Carbon based fuels let alone cocaine don't have off switches. The situation just isn't analogous at all.

Bee extinction wasn't addressed, it was just revealed to not be true. Article with lots of data here: https://www.acsh.org/news/2018/04/17/bee-apocalypse-was-neve... Mass starvatio…

Given the past few years, what exactly do you think terms like earth science or infectious diseases will mean in practice? Not some hypothetical curriculum that might exist in a th…

Seems pretty obvious what it's supposed to mean. Those topics are all selected for compatibility with ideological indoctrination and anti-science thinking. Basic science like physi…