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Asteroid Impact on Earth 2032 with Probability 1% and 8Mt Energy

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Re: Asteroid Impact on Earth 2032 with Probability 1% and 8Mt Energy

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What can be done to increase the asteroid impact probability?

Waiting. In general the probability increases as more data is gathered, and the error ellipse shrinks with the Earth still inside. Then is suddenly drops to zero in the overwhelming majority of cases, when the Earth finally gets out of this shrinking error ellipse.

Re: Asteroid Impact on Earth 2032 with Probability 1% and 8Mt Energy

#52

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It's actually a great way to find concepts to verify and ask questions about. You will often find out about tangential topics you otherwise would not have. I find it fascinating that people brag about refusing to even try to learn to use new tools just because they don't know how to use them effectively.

> I find it fascinating that people brag about refusing to even try to learn to use new tools just because they don't know how to use them effectively Interesting how you jump to conclusion based on nothing. Had you checked my profile (even though it's even more obvious from my Reddit one) you'd have seen that I'm actually pretty savvy when of comes to language models. But knowing your tools also implies knowing thei…

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Re: Asteroid Impact on Earth 2032 with Probability 1% and 8Mt Energy

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Why crisis? People should simply not look up.

On the other hand, if people are told constantly to look up, eventually they stop looking.

Or maybe we just build a system that can reliably detect and deflect asteroids and resolve the concern.

Re: Asteroid Impact on Earth 2032 with Probability 1% and 8Mt Energy

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> I find it fascinating that people brag about refusing to even try to learn to use new tools just because they don't know how to use them effectively Interesting how you jump to conclusion based on nothing. Had you checked my profile (even though it's even more obvious from my Reddit one) you'd have seen that I'm actually pretty savvy when of comes to language models. But knowing your tools also implies knowing thei…

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Yet you behave the exact same way …

Re: Asteroid Impact on Earth 2032 with Probability 1% and 8Mt Energy

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What is it with people like you's selective memory? People were dying in droves in places like India or China, scroll down about halfway to see the funeral pyres: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/piapeterson/covid-pande... They were even just dumping bodies in their holy river because they couldn't afford proper funerals. Congrats for living (I assume) in a modern world with good health and clean air where you we…

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1 million Americans died in the first 4 months of the COVID epidemic. That was not normal, nor anywhere close to normal.
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