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Marc Andreessen on AI, Tech, Censorship, and Dining with Trump
It’s morning in America, so I’m very happy. I think the analogy for what’s happening right now is 1980—the transition from the ’70s to the ’80s and the Carter-Reagan race.
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AI Can’t Teach AI New Tricks
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei predicts that “powerful AI” will surpass human intelligence in many areas by 2026. OpenAI claims its latest models “ They can reason through complex tasks and solve harder problems.” Thinking? Reasoning? Will AI become humanlike? Conscious?
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This AI Pioneer Thinks AI Is Dumber Than a Cat
Yann LeCun, an NYU professor and senior researcher at Meta Platforms, says warnings about the technology’s existential peril are ‘complete B.S.’
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Nebelspalter | Droht in Europa eine neue Eiszeit?
Vor kurzem berichteten die Medien aufgeregt darüber, dass laut einer neuen niederländischen Studie der Golfstrom versiegen könnte. Das würde in Europa zu einer verheerenden Abkühlung führen.
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Conservatives Set to Abandon Sceptics as Temperatures Spike
Before the advent of computer simulation modelling and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the past record of climate change was assembled from a variety of different types of evidence including chronicles, grain price records, radiocarbon dating, pollen analysis and vegetation.
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The Earth Is Warming, but Is CO2 the Cause?
If this column has ever plagiarized itself, it’s by repeating the phrase “evidence of warming is not evidence of what causes warming.
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Average temperatures
A fellow phoned me yesterday, he had just returned home from a holiday in Greece. He has holidayed there off and on for the last 20 years. It had never been so cold, he told me.
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The Autism Surge: Lies, Conspiracies, and My Own Kids
In the summer of 2001 we took our younger son, two-year-old Jonathan, to the neurologist. He hadn’t developed speech, never played with toys, and had a compulsion to stare at cracks in the pavement while flapping his hands. The diagnosis was almost instant: autism.
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The internet and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race
If I had the energy, I suppose I could fill a hundred pages trying to prove it, but what would be the point? Whole ) [_have been_](https://substack.
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The era of artificial intelligence is here, and boy, are people freaking out
Fortunately, I am here to bring the good news: AI will not destroy the world, and in fact may save it.
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Gesucht: Klimaschäden in armen Ländern
An der vergangenen Klimakonferenz in Ägypten war es wohl das am intensivsten diskutierte Thema: der Entschädigungsfonds unter dem Titel «Loss And Damage» («Schäden und Verluste»), über den arme Staaten für erlittene Klimaschäden abgegolten werden sollen.
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Don’t Believe the Hype About Antarctica’s Melting Glaciers - WSJ
Alarming reports that the Antarctic ice sheet is shrinking misrepresent the science under way to understand a very complex situation. Antarctica has been ice-covered for at least 30 million years. The ice sheet holds about 26.