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Comment · 1 month ago
Makes sense. OP is leaning I to conspiracional adhoc reasoning. I’m sure Pierre would rather keep his Hawaiian island than to field questions from the agencies
Comment · 3 months ago
Big fan of Larry Summers here. He seems to be part of everything, Harvard, Epstein, etc.
Comment · 5 months ago
Considering that we're already approaching a Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum analog at up to ten times faster than the onset of the PETM (one of the largest mass extinction events) [1], I’d say it’s pretty much game over.

[1] "Atmospheric Methane: Comparison Between Methane's Record in 2006–2022 and During Glacial Terminations" (Nisbet, Manning et al. 2023)

Comment · 8 months ago
It was a joke. Dang is the site-wide moderator
Comment · 8 months ago
Sounds like it was written by someone with a health condition. Hope Bostrom is alright.

Quite puzzling also he wouldn't even refer to his earlier work to refute it, given that he wrote THE book on the risk of superintelligence.

Comment · 9 months ago
Some Kantons are more easy going than others but overall the police are not to fuck around with.
Comment · 9 months ago
According to this source, 77% of soy production is used for animal feed. That only a small percentage of it goes to cattle is irrelevant in terms of the damage caused.
Comment · 10 months ago
It’s not absurd, it’s deception.
Comment · 11 months ago
So, one of those Egg Council creeps got to you too?
Comment · 1 year ago
This is so chatGpt it hurts. Can we petition hn to ban ai generated comments? I see more Reddit communities actively putting a ban on ai, hn should follow if it can be done with the available resources.
Comment · 1 year ago
Any accessible online space with real hacker culture? Mastodon?

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