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Going to have to start following this Derek Lowe guy. He also had a good balanced bit on room temp superconductor. Well done science reporting without the hyperbole.
I’ve had it bookmarked for a couple of years. Worth visiting twice or trice a year, or even more frequently.
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Meh. Łukaszenko and Putin were waving their nuclear dicks around over here for decades at this point. The only reason they do it is to scare away the more naive westerners. Nobody here takes it seriously.
The present threat is no nuclear in nature. Planes from Belarus flew into Polish airspace, and Lukashenko has threatened that Wagner troops are eager to enter Poland.
If 2023 ends up giving us AGI, room-temperature superconductors, Starships and a cure for cancer, I think we will able to call it a good year...
Perhaps these rapid advancements are an indication that we've been visited by, or are currently under the guidance of, a significantly more advanced civilization. /s
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We’re not getting AGI anytime soon…
We could, we're not there yet but at the current rate we could be less than 10 years away from it.
I think everyone is fooled by Searle’s Chinese dictionary and the visual equivalents with midjourney.
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There have been some incidents on the Polish border recently that put the whole thing on a knife edge.
No, that's just noise generated by the Russians and Belarus and then picked up by the press to make it sound dramatic. This is par for the course for Russian disinfo.
If 2023 ends up giving us AGI, room-temperature superconductors, Starships and a cure for cancer, I think we will able to call it a good year...
It is probably too late with record high temperatures, every few years, for centuries to come.
The practical details should be figured out in a decade or so. The political side may be harder.
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2023/07/su...