Whenever someone tell me they can be reduced to an LLM, I believe them. I see you and I believe you that you are qualitatively the same as a language model.
It also creates and updates models, uses those models to make predictions, guides the stochastic generation by comparing the output to those models and reworks them in real time.
It also creates and updates models, uses those models to make predictions, and guides the stochastic generation by comparing the output to those models and reworks them in real time.
That's a different bar. Probably doesn't work is much easier to meet, and narrower. The person didn't ask for provably works. They are probably comfortable with "might work might not, but at least it's not provably wrong".
Over half of Colorado River water goes to agriculture, about half of that irrigates alfalfa for animal feed. It's not clear if that's what you meant by capitalism, but lawns are a very small portion of what the water is used for.
My mind went to alfalfa because lawn grass isn’t a crop. And I for one didn’t know alfalfa isn’t a grass. I suspect its being a legume is not common knowledge.
> Conservationism was a reaction to postwar redevelopment, as its proponents claimed. But it was less a reaction to what the modernists destroyed, than to what they created.
Since they’re mostly talking about the US, the thesis here is wrong. Almost all NIMBYism of the era was borne of redlining and white flight in the post-war era, which drove whites out of the cities to the burbs because there were too many “coloreds.” So basically, Americans were - and still are - racist no matter what SCOTUS says.
I'm sure some NIMBYism can be attributed to that, but I think too often it's described as the only reason, ignoring the real problems that come with new and denser development, many of which could be mitigated.
We shouldn’t be thought of kindly. We’re essentially post food scarcity in the US and children are still sent to school starving. Not only did we fail the here and now, but we’ve failed our future brothers and sisters.
The hilarity of being post food scarcity when the quality of food in stores has declined precipitously both in terms of nutrient density and taste. Most of the processed food contains high fructose corn syrup, sketchy preservatives, and worse. Even if people think we “succeeded” on this front, the truth is that we have failed. The ultimate consequences of our failure have yet to play out.
I appreciate that they’re bringing this study to light… however, none of the source links actually trace back to the quoted study - instead pointing to their own domain or business insider.
Marcoccia, C., et al. AI Advice Suppresses People’s Willingness to Say “I Don’t Know”, Even When the Advice Is Wrong and Accuracy Is Incentivized. PsyArXiv, 15 July 2026, osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/5y6m4_v1
We'll develop faster and better tech. We'll find resources to feed that. Use that to build better. Access better resources. We'll mine asteroids. We'll harness much more from the sun. The factory must grow.
Is that before or after the earths atmosphere acidifies for humans and our bodies can’t hold enough phosphorus or calcium for basic metabolic tasks? You have until 2050:
these doom and gloom reports also said half the land will be under water by now and average temperature will be 40c. Didn't happen.
Earth is in a cooler period and it will get very warm. These crappy climate change activists will not get anything done but to hold us back. We need more power, more tech, and more abundance of things. We will need to engineer our way out of real climate change.
> https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/food-nutrition-assistance/fo...