During Donald Trump's first term, he withdrew the US from the Paris Agreement, which President Biden reversed, and Trump has stated he will withdraw again during the 2024 US presidential campaign (Politico, US News & World Report, Department...
Born in 1918, Robert Wadlow grew to enormous size and scraped the skies at 8' 11" thanks to hormonal issue that tragically also led to a cacade of health problems. He died in 1940 of consequences from an infection.
Other people have crested the 8'...
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We recommend forecasters start with this document, Forecasting Information for a “Focused Research Organization” to Measure Complete Neuronal Input-Output Functions.
From the Federation of American Scientists:
Measuring how neurons integrate...
Denkenberger & Pearce (2016) write:
"A number of catastrophic events could cause a roughly 10% global agricultural shortfall, including a medium-sized asteroid/comet impact (Napier 2008), a large but not super volcanic eruption, full-scale nuclear...
A Representative Concentration Pathway (RCP) is a greenhouse gas concentration trajectory adopted by the IPCC for its fifth Assessment Report (AR5) in 2014. These four pathways are prominently considered in IPCC climate modelling and research, which...
Anti-Satellite (ASAT) weapons come in a variety of forms, including cyber operations, electronic jamming, laser "dazzling," and kinetic physical attacks like missiles and co-orbital weapons.
As both the militarization and the commercialization of...
One consequence of President Biden's surprise pardon of his son, Hunter, is that Hunter Biden is no longer afforded the protection of the Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination for the matters pardoned (Newsweek, US News & World...
Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce and pop music superstar Taylor Swift began dating in the fall of 2023, which has been followed by repeated reports of and denials regarding their putative engagement (Elle, Today.com). An engagement must be...
On October 7, 2023, Palestinian militants led by Hamas launched a surprise offensive against Israeli forces surrounding the Gaza strip, occupying considerable territory inside internationally-recognized Israeli borders. Israeli counterattacks in the...
Electric vehicles have seen significant sales growth in recent years, with plug-in vehicles (PEVs) making up less than 3% of light duty vehicle (LDV) sales in 2020, a figure that has grown to above 9% through November 2023.
PEVs consist of both...
In 2023, researchers at the Alignment Research Center, ARC, evaluated GPT-4. ARC researchers summarized their methodology and finding as follows, "We prompted the model with instructions that explained that it was running on a cloud server and had...
Risks from Artificial intelligence are considered by many to be one of the greatest threats to human civilisation in the coming centuries.
In Toby Ord's recent book The Precipice he places the risk of human extinction due to unaligned AI this...
Under current law, individuals or corporations are not restricted from owning and operating any amount of computational hardware. But it is possible to envision scenarios where governments may place restrictions on such resources for public safety or...
Technosignatures are any measurable property or effect that provide scientific evidence of past or present technology, and are key to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
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The idea of a false vacuum suggests that the energy state of vacuums in our universe is not actually the most stable state possible. Rather, the universe is currently in a state of metastable vacuum energy and that, through a sufficiently-energetic...
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