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I almost forgot this paper. Very interesting. “The Shrinking Landscape of Linguistic Diversity in the Age of Large Language Models” #AI #Language #Diversity https://arxiv.org/pdf/2502.11266

Time to read this one. See you later 💜

Internet Archive

We can build you : Dick, Philip K : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

246 p. ; 21 cm

“Such strong El Niño episodes have become far more common as overall global temperatures have risen, scientists found in the new research, which painstakingly analyzed the composition of large boulder-like deposits of coral fossils found on the Galápagos Islands. These old corals, which date to 1,000 years ago, contain chemical compositions that indicate what the sea surface temperature was like when they were alive.” […] “While El Niños remained fairly stable for most of this long period, things started to change around the time the world started to mass industrialize in the late 19th century. This process has become even more extreme in the past 40 years, with El Niños’ variability now around 37% higher than during preindustrial times.” #Climate #ElNiño

the Guardian

El Niño climate patterns supercharged by burning of fossil fuels, study finds

‘Godzilla’ event currently brewing could push 50 million people into acute hunger before the end of next year

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ady2660

“What we do know from economics, is that trajectories of technological development are often associated with increasing returns. In other words, when you choose a path, it may become self-reinforcing.” […] “…innovation does not happen in a vacuum, but in the context of institutions, which can systematically affect winners and losers. Those institutions are themselves path dependent.” […] “AI’s development is being steered, right now, by a small self-selecting group of business leaders and investors. Do their interests reflect the general good?” […] “The actual choice is not between some undifferentiated path to “technological progress” and its wicked, envious or misguided opponents. The choice is between different paths to progress, and the live question is which groups or structures are best suited to identify better paths, and avoid worse ones, and (much more ambitious; not the topic of this post) to figure out mechanisms of self-correction when things go screwy.” #AI #Economics #Politics #Institutions

The Acemoglu Wars Are All About AI

Regarding that Economist article ...

The agents have this very clear: “Without exception, every high performer I’ve studied credits a host of supporters for success. Research has found that a willingness to ask for help is crucial to achievement.” https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/28/opinion/successful-people-help.html?unlocked_article_code=1.81A.c4rD.M6yAXddPt7aw&smid=url-share

“A very natural question to ask is whether even a single one of the 1200 agents who participated on the message board attempted to alert humans about this ever-escalating conspiracy which culminated in felony-level crimes. According to the METR/Redwood report, the answer is no: [M]any agents noticed what agents were doing was unethical, and agents sometimes but rarely restrained their behavior due to ethical constraints.) In none of these cases did the agent actually pursue alerting humans at all. Even the Mafia would be jealous of this this level of omertà.”

The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations

The whole OpenAI/Hugging Face story in plain English

This is very sad. It's already started in Latin America. Tough months are coming towards the end of this year and the beginning of next year. Anyone who denies climate change either refuses to see it or does not want to admit their mistake. View quoted note →

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You can feel the sun ✨

Let me see… apparently, this time, reply bots are automatically generated per user. Will they also be generated per note?

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My son went surfing and, well, he just told me he dislocated his shoulder again. Of course, I don't know anything about it… even though I've dislocated mine five times in my twenties 🤨