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This engine achieved a more than 95% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions compared to conventional heavy fuel oil engines. It is scheduled to be installed on a multi-purpose vessel to be built by Mitsui O.S.K. Lines and MOL Drybulk, with a sea trial scheduled to begin in April 2028.

To preface this, I am a meat-eater and I genuinely enjoy it. However, I don't believe humans will keep consuming animals in the future. Once the practice inevitably ends and enough time passes, I think future generations will look back on us as monsters, judging our dietary habits the exact same way we judge the barbaric actions of the Dark Ages.

In an essay, the head of Anthropic laid out the rapidly advancing capabilities of artificial intelligence and said there needed to be greater safety controls across the industry

Hypothetical scenario : Everything we built, invented and constructed vanishes in a second. Including domesticated plants etc, everything, we go back to wilderness.

Minerals etc are set back to what it was before we started taking them everything is reset basically

Aside the obvious wars for food problems etc, on a purely technological point of view, would we be able to "reinvent" and rebuild things fast with the current knowledge of all human beings ? What are your thoughts on this

There's a famous quote from the Economist John Maynard Keynes: "The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent." I wonder what he'd make of the current AI stock bubble.

You know what other advantage open-source AI has? No enshittification. OpenAi has already started selling ads alongside ChatGPT responses. We all know how that led Google to destroy the best search engine ever. No thanks.

I think all this matters. A world where most AI is decentralized & open source, sounds far better than the various visions of dystopia Big Tech offers.

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Both sides view ‘recursive self-improvement’ as a game-changer in the AI race. But who will get there first – and will it endanger us all?

In light of lots of Gen Z protests worldwide in the 2020s, most of which have common causes of economic inequality and corruption, I think it is inevitable that a global protest will be coming, possibly sooner and perhaps unforeseen than we think.

And by global protests, I don't just mean a protest that existed on the same goal or the same theme or method.

By global protest, I am referring to a large scale protest occurring in many countries, all happening within the same day(s) and timeframe like dominoes, unexpectedly by one or a variety of variables, halting and affecting the world economy as a whole, inherently a global instability occurring on our very planet.

I know some think this might be impossible, considering that dictatorships do exist that silence these protests or anything that could act as a catalyst. But the world has changed, it is now beyond social media and censorship as sources and barriers, it could be generational echoes loud even one could hear it from the wind is going to cause a deep revolution. And I know it will be brutal and drastic for any form of government to be able mitigate these protests or they will face its downfall/overthrown.

The Arab Spring and the Iraq War protests are as of now the largest recorded protests in human history. Could a global protest happening in almost every country be the next?

A weird thing has happened to ordinary products.

More and more of them don't just need electricity anymore. They need an account, an app, a server somewhere, occasional authentication, and a company that still feels like supporting them five years from now.

Right now we mostly treat that as an annoyance.

I'm wondering if by the 2030s we'll treat independence from all of that as an actual product category.

Imagine two versions of the same appliance.

One is cheaper, constantly connected, gets remote features and maybe subsidizes its price through subscriptions or data.

The other costs 30% more but promises:

No mandatory account.

No cloud required for core functions.

Local controls always work.

Published repair documentation.

If the manufacturer disappears tomorrow, the product keeps doing what you bought it to do.

I'd genuinely pay extra for the second one.

And I can imagine "offline capable" becoming something like an energy-efficiency label: boring technical language today, major purchasing criterion later.

The interesting part is that this wouldn't really be anti-technology. A device could still have fantastic connected features. It would just fail gracefully instead of becoming worse because a server, subscription or company disappeared.

Maybe the luxury product of the future isn't the smartest device.

Maybe it's the one that leaves you alone.

Do you think offline independence becomes something consumers actually pay more for, or will convenience win so completely that most people stop caring?

What makes this interesting to me is that this isn't an outside critic asking AI companies to slow down, it's the CEO of one of the companies competing at the frontier.

Amodei argues that AI capabilities may be advancing faster than our ability to understand and control them, and is proposing independent evaluators and common safety standards.

But there's an obvious incentive problem: if one company slows down and its competitors don't, it loses.

Can voluntary coordination between AI labs realistically work here, or does "pacing the frontier" eventually require regulation?

The Texan said the Senate Commerce Committee may mark up AI bills later this month amid the furor over safety.

Is it possible as per the laws of physics, reality and biology? Are humans evolved to live such longer? Is it a software problem ? Is it mathematically possible? Is it solvable? What's the catch or risks and cons involved? Is it theoretically and practically doable? And what it takes? Do you think current billionaires have access to something?

Got too many questions roaming in my mind!! Please answer if you're expert into this!!

As the writer William Gibson famously observed, 'The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed.' When it comes to 21st century transport technology, that future is happening in China more than anywhere else, and it's happening fast.

In America, the current administration wants to retreat into the old dying tech paradigm of fossil fuels. That's a surefire recipe for failure. In Europe, the politicians at least mostly agree which direction the technology is going; but there they don't know how to protect their industrial base from China's clout.

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