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To be clear, to me this is an indictment of AI. It is industrial scale environmental harm on an investment bet that AI will have a net positive economic impact. Since AI is a plagiarism-drive bullshit-generating machine, optimism looks misplaced. Looks more like an investment bubble poised to pop.
i feel like this is less an indictment against AI and more an indictment of how dependent our system is on fossil fuels - this wouldnt be necessary if it was easier to build solar and nuclear.
To give some sense of the insane power use of AI, witness this fracking expedition in western PA. All those trucks are hauling sand & fracking fluid. They were going back & forth constantly the time I was there, both Saturday & Sunday. The road they are turning on to was constructed just for this.
October 3, 2025 at 7:07 PM
To be clear, to me this is an indictment of AI. It is industrial scale environmental harm on an investment bet that AI will have a net positive economic impact. Since AI is a plagiarism-drive bullshit-generating machine, optimism looks misplaced. Looks more like an investment bubble poised to pop.
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This is such a good point. If you actually watch Charlie’s events—as opposed to the fake summaries—they are one of the few places with open and honest dialogue between left and right. He would answer any question and talk to everyone.
September 10, 2025 at 9:04 PM
This is such a good point. If you actually watch Charlie’s events—as opposed to the fake summaries—they are one of the few places with open and honest dialogue between left and right. He would answer any question and talk to everyone.
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Everyone with a platform right now should be condemning political violence of all stripes, and particularly from their own side. Fanning the flames here - on either side - is an act of encouraging further political violence. We have to stop this cycle, not feed it.
RIP, Charlie Kirk.
RIP, Charlie Kirk.
September 10, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Everyone with a platform right now should be condemning political violence of all stripes, and particularly from their own side. Fanning the flames here - on either side - is an act of encouraging further political violence. We have to stop this cycle, not feed it.
RIP, Charlie Kirk.
RIP, Charlie Kirk.
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Dear God, protect Charlie in his darkest hour.
September 10, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Dear God, protect Charlie in his darkest hour.
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"NASA to Share Details of New Perseverance Mars Rover Finding" - 11 a.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 10 www.nasa.gov/news-release... ----- Just a guess"The Detection of a Potential Biosignature By the Perseverance Rover on Mars" 56th LPSC (2025)
ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citation... #Astrobiology
ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citation... #Astrobiology
September 8, 2025 at 11:38 PM
"NASA to Share Details of New Perseverance Mars Rover Finding" - 11 a.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 10 www.nasa.gov/news-release... ----- Just a guess"The Detection of a Potential Biosignature By the Perseverance Rover on Mars" 56th LPSC (2025)
ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citation... #Astrobiology
ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citation... #Astrobiology
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The mysterious 'Hoag's object'
A very rare ring galaxy containing 8 billion stars
Typically ring galaxies are formed by a collision but for Hoag's object this is unlikely. How it formed remains a mystery to this day...
(Credit: NASA/(STScI/AURA)/Ray A. Lucas)
A very rare ring galaxy containing 8 billion stars
Typically ring galaxies are formed by a collision but for Hoag's object this is unlikely. How it formed remains a mystery to this day...
(Credit: NASA/(STScI/AURA)/Ray A. Lucas)
May 16, 2025 at 3:46 PM
The mysterious 'Hoag's object'
A very rare ring galaxy containing 8 billion stars
Typically ring galaxies are formed by a collision but for Hoag's object this is unlikely. How it formed remains a mystery to this day...
(Credit: NASA/(STScI/AURA)/Ray A. Lucas)
A very rare ring galaxy containing 8 billion stars
Typically ring galaxies are formed by a collision but for Hoag's object this is unlikely. How it formed remains a mystery to this day...
(Credit: NASA/(STScI/AURA)/Ray A. Lucas)
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Academics tend to know a lot about a rather narrow domain of knowledge. Outside their specialism, however, their opinions are worth no more (and no less) than members of the general public. I wish some of my colleagues would accept that.
April 26, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Academics tend to know a lot about a rather narrow domain of knowledge. Outside their specialism, however, their opinions are worth no more (and no less) than members of the general public. I wish some of my colleagues would accept that.
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Puny humans with their puny legal systems.
A colleague emailed me today to flag the fact that the superb Fourth Circuit Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson ended a quotidian insurance opinion with an unusually introspective conclusion.
April 24, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Puny humans with their puny legal systems.
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Things I don’t understand about the universe.
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Things I don’t understand in modified dynamics (it’s cosmology)
I’ve been busy, and a bit exhausted, since the long series of posts on structure formation in the early universe. The thing I like about MOND is that it helps me understand – and succes…
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March 30, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Things I don’t understand about the universe.
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You would think that if we could directly sample the ocean inside Enceladus (not to mention the plumes), we could detect life. But stratification in its ocean - and those of other icy moons - may make surface-level detections impossible. Sobering news. www.centauri-dreams.org/2025/02/11/p...
Pondering Life in an Alien Ocean | Centauri Dreams
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February 11, 2025 at 8:52 PM
You would think that if we could directly sample the ocean inside Enceladus (not to mention the plumes), we could detect life. But stratification in its ocean - and those of other icy moons - may make surface-level detections impossible. Sobering news. www.centauri-dreams.org/2025/02/11/p...