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CO2 overload, detected in human blood, suggests toxic atmosphere within 50 years

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Re: CO2 overload, detected in human blood, suggests toxic atmosphere within 50 years

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Post by bix6 »

toasty228 wrote: post #33
bix6 wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Build software that improves the situation. That could be monitoring that helps surface data, tools that help governments and industries manage their CO2 goals, AI systems that search for solutions that you then implement, social apps that help us manifest change, etc. This whole category is underserved because everyone just throws their hands up and says it’s unsolvable, governments problem, etc. Edit: the only posi…

> the only positive response in this thread and I get downvotes lmao what the hell people. Because it's not "positive", it's "techsolutionism", which at this point is basically a cult... let's keep shovelling more shit on the gigantic pile of shit and pray it gets smaller

You’re conflating me giving one individual advice with techno-optimisim being pushed by those seeking self-enrichment. There are absolutely things GP could do to use his skills for good.

Re: CO2 overload, detected in human blood, suggests toxic atmosphere within 50 years

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Post by bix6 »

ratelimitsteve wrote: post #45
bix6 wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Build software that improves the situation. That could be monitoring that helps surface data, tools that help governments and industries manage their CO2 goals, AI systems that search for solutions that you then implement, social apps that help us manifest change, etc. This whole category is underserved because everyone just throws their hands up and says it’s unsolvable, governments problem, etc. Edit: the only posi…

There are plenty of positive responses, yours got downvoted for being essentially a series tautologies. "Do something that fixes the problem" isn't advice, and "have AI do something that fixes the problem" is actually directly harmful to the end goal.

I am suggesting a mindset shift / brainstorm but ok.

Re: CO2 overload, detected in human blood, suggests toxic atmosphere within 50 years

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Post by bruckie »

boplicity wrote: post #40

Anyone else ever think of somehow building an at-home carbon-removal system, for lower carbon content in the air of your living spaces? I know it's a silly idea, but one that has occurred to me from time to time.

The most practical way to do this is to ensure that your indoor air CO2 levels aren't significantly elevated over outdoor levels. One common way to do that (apart from opening windows) is to use a balanced ventilation system like an ERV or HRV. Those constantly exchange indoor air for outdoor air, and exchange a lot of the heat in the process to reduce energy losses.

Doesn't help if atmospheric CO2 levels increase to unsafe levels, though.

Re: CO2 overload, detected in human blood, suggests toxic atmosphere within 50 years

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Post by skeledrew »

ButlerianJihad wrote: post #71
jeffbee wrote: post #56

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Collagen for osteoarthritis is well-supported by research. I was responding to the statement about connective tissues.

> osteoarthritis This is, nine times out of ten, a bullshit diagnosis, and here is why. Providers have systematically and knowingly misidentified arthrosis and other degenerative diseases. Because guess what? You can medicate and relieve inflammation, but -osis is not curable and very difficult to heal. So rather than tell the truth to elderly patients with degenerating bodies, the providers lie and say there is infl…

> and here is why

LLM? Or LLMism adoption?

Re: CO2 overload, detected in human blood, suggests toxic atmosphere within 50 years

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Post by ButlerianJihad »

skeledrew wrote: post #94
ButlerianJihad wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> osteoarthritis This is, nine times out of ten, a bullshit diagnosis, and here is why. Providers have systematically and knowingly misidentified arthrosis and other degenerative diseases. Because guess what? You can medicate and relieve inflammation, but -osis is not curable and very difficult to heal. So rather than tell the truth to elderly patients with degenerating bodies, the providers lie and say there is infl…

> and here is why LLM? Or LLMism adoption?

dafuq is wrong with y’all and normal English sentences?

Re: CO2 overload, detected in human blood, suggests toxic atmosphere within 50 years

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Post by skeledrew »

BuyMyBitcoins wrote: post #32
iknowstuff wrote: post #12

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prompt Mythos how to engineer a virus that spreads Alpha-gal syndrome and makes everyone on earth vegan. Instant 30% greenhouse gas reduction.

You may just be joking, but such a thing would be a crime against humanity.

Sounds like a forced sustainability measure to me. Nothing wrong if we're made into herbivores, except maybe the non-human herbivore populations running rampant and competing.

Re: CO2 overload, detected in human blood, suggests toxic atmosphere within 50 years

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Post by skeledrew »

ButlerianJihad wrote: post #95
skeledrew wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> and here is why LLM? Or LLMism adoption?

dafuq is wrong with y’all and normal English sentences?

It's strange and unnecessary usage. LLMs generate normal English sentences which sometimes look strange and have unnecessary bits.

Re: CO2 overload, detected in human blood, suggests toxic atmosphere within 50 years

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Post by himata4113 »

breezybottom wrote: post #79
himata4113 wrote: post #58

Humans are extremely adaptable, for example there's people who work in extreme conditions underwater, what would be considered absolutely unbearable and torture is normal. More information on saturation diving: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfiHc_rh4EY We're already slowly adapting to higher CO2 levels by sitting mostly indoors that have elevated CO2 from 500 to 800 with ranges up to 1500 (taken from my measurement…

Just because they do it doesn't make such short run adaptations healthy or sustainable.

50 years wouldn't make it lethal and 100 years would be several generations of adoption is the point I was trying to make.

Re: CO2 overload, detected in human blood, suggests toxic atmosphere within 50 years

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Post by himata4113 »

OutOfHere wrote: post #78
himata4113 wrote: post #58

Humans are extremely adaptable, for example there's people who work in extreme conditions underwater, what would be considered absolutely unbearable and torture is normal. More information on saturation diving: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfiHc_rh4EY We're already slowly adapting to higher CO2 levels by sitting mostly indoors that have elevated CO2 from 500 to 800 with ranges up to 1500 (taken from my measurement…

Huh. Are you denying the upper safe level of serum bicarbonate? Just because we can tolerate 800 ppm of CO2 doesn't mean we can keep pushing it forever; there is clearly a limit. I suggest actually reading the paper. Diving is not a 24x7 activity, and so it doesn't relate.

saturation diving IS a 24x7 activity, people often spend weeks in underwater pods. And the point I was trying to make is that the premise behind the paper doesn't hold up to scrutiny when indoors CO2 levels are already elevated like that.

Re: CO2 overload, detected in human blood, suggests toxic atmosphere within 50 years

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Post by IanCal »

CrzyLngPwd wrote: post #38

What are we, the powerless people, supposed to do with that as we watch super yachts, private jets, and armies bomb oil storage and gas pipelines? My office, with the window open, surrounded by trees and in the countryside, and the nearest large town being 20 miles away, shows 422ppm CO2 pretty consistently.

People aren't powerless. They keep voting for people that do these things and/or keep giving them money to do it again and again. That's why they have money, that's why they have power, and as long as people keep rewarding them for doing it they'll keep doing it.
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