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Milton Is the Hurricane That Scientists Were Dreading | Climate change set up the Gulf of Mexico to birth a storm this strong, this fast. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I should have been more specific, I was just referring to the storm surge flooded areas.

Milton Is the Hurricane That Scientists Were Dreading | Climate change set up the Gulf of Mexico to birth a storm this strong, this fast. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

I'm surprised there isn't more movement to just completely ban building in these areas. Getting everyone else to cover the cost of their predictable destruction seems very unfair.

Milton Is the Hurricane That Scientists Were Dreading | Climate change set up the Gulf of Mexico to birth a storm this strong, this fast. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

I am aware that they have a state insurer in Florida. They are going to need it. I can't see a single private insurance company wanting to touch anything to do with rebuilding in areas affected by this. They know climate change is getting worse, and this is only going to happen soon again.

There Is No Climate Haven. We All Live in Florida Now. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Like Covid, it seems humans have to wait until disaster is right on their doorstep, before they pull themselves together to do something about it.

Cement Is a Big Polluter. A Plant in Norway Hopes to Clean It Up. | Heidelberg Materials is betting it can profit from an expensive process that will reduce the carbon dioxide emitted in c/[email protected]
Harris to sit down with The View, Colbert and Howard Stern in media blitz in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Oh the ladies on "The View" already love her. She'll have no problems with them.

The View and the Real Housewives franchise are guilty TV pleasures I normally hate admitting to in public.

Openvibe combines Mastodon, Bluesky and Nostr into one social app | TechCrunch in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

When might it integrate Lemmy?

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Japanese firm TDK says new material allows solid-state batteries to reach an energy density of 1,000 Wh/L, which is around 100 times more than their existing conventional solid-state batteries. (www.tdk.com)
 

Japanese firm TDK says new material allows solid-state batteries to reach an energy density of 1,000 Wh/L, which is around 100 times more than their existing conventional solid-state batteries.

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A new discovery about immune system function could enable a ‘unified healer army’ of T cells, that could repair injured muscle, make fat cells respond better to insulin, and regrow hair follicles. (www.eurekalert.org)
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Stanford University is the latest entrant to develop an open-source humanoid robot. Will future robots be cheap, and widely available, like open-source software today? (www.inverse.com)
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Global funding in the cultured meat industry dropped by 75% in the last year. Singapore sees its chance to become a world leader, backing local and international firms. (restofworld.org)
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Generative AI on pace to Accelerate Wealth Inequality - The International Monetary Fund warned that nearly 40% of jobs across the globe could be affected by the rise of artificial intelligence. (www.ai-supremacy.com)
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Ilya Sutskever just launched a new AI venture focused solely on developing safe and powerful superintelligence, coming just a month after his official departure from OpenAI. (ssi.inc)
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Latent Expertise: Everyone is in R&D - Ideas come from the edges, not the center (www.oneusefulthing.org)
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Sycophancy to subterfuge: Investigating reward tampering in language models (www.anthropic.com)
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A Swiss research team's discovery of the quantum phenomenon of superradiance in biological cells may have startling future implications for medicine, AI, and consciousness research. (www.spectroscopyonline.com)
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A new open-source humanoid robot project suggests dystopian sci-fi tropes may have got it wrong; AI and robots will be decentralized/widely available, not hoarded and controlled by corporate elites. (futurology.today)
 

Many people have been surprised how quickly open-source AI has kept pace with the AI efforts getting billions in investor funding. It's worth wondering if the same may happen with robotics. After all, robotics are primarily AI too, though embodied in a 3D environment. Recently two major Chinese manufacturers, UBTech Robotics and Xiaomi, introduced an open-source humanoid robot, now there's another. This is from Hugging Face, the popular AI hosting platform, and French robotics firm, Pollen Robotics.

One of the primary dystopian storytelling sci-fi tropes that feeds into popular ideas about AI & robotics, is that corporations will be all-powerful in the future, with 99% of humanity reduced to downtrodden serfs. Yet open-source AI & robots suggest the opposite. They suggest that power would be decentralized and widely available. The more people can meet their basic needs (food, medical care, etc) from open-source AI & robots, the more power drains away from elites trying to hoard and control these resources.

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Swiss researchers want to build edible robots. So far they've developed edible batteries and other components, and say there may be a surprisingly wide range of use cases for edible robots.. (techxplore.com)
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The former head of the US's National Security Agency joins OpenAI board (www.theverge.com)
Just realized we have no solution for communities with inactive mods at Lemmy (devs, please look into this) in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I think I might try that approach, you're right it could motivate a subset of people. We have a pinned post spot at the top of the sub-reddit I'm going to use again in a few days. When I used it before, I'd guess a few thousand people read the post, but it seemed to generate very few people moving to the Lemmy site.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/15wi75l/rfuturology_is_now_in_the_fediverse_at/

Just realized we have no solution for communities with inactive mods at Lemmy (devs, please look into this) in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

Slightly off-topic, but how are you finding encouraging Reddit users to make the switch to Lemmy?

I mod r/futurology, which is close to 20 million subscribers, but most of the growth for futurology.today has come from within the fediverse. Any tips for encouraging Redditors to migrate?

So Far, AI Is a Money Pit That Isn't Paying Off in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

It should also worry investors open-source AI is only months behind the big tech leaders. I looked into AI voice cloning lately. There's a few really pricey options. Like $25 a month for a couple of hours voice cloning.

However, there's already an open-source version of what they're selling.

World EV Sales Now Equal 18% Of World Auto Sales in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago (24 children)

I wonder when this is going to seriously affect world oil demand? People used to think "Peak Oil" would be when supply was constrained, it turns out it will be when demand is constrained.

Reddit is dead. Long live the Fediverse. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yes, its hard to understand. On the other hand our results on cloudflare look way too good to be true. They say the fediverse site had 180K unique visitors in its first month and almost 3 million of what it calls "total requests".

It's hard to figure out what this means in terms of how many people on the fediverse are seeing the content, both from our site, and where its coming up in federated instances.

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