🌎 The vast majority believe in climate change and want to do something about it (but think others don't)
A study published in Science, in which 59,000 people in 63 countries were surveyed, showed that 86% "believe" in climate change. 86% think that people in their country "should try to combat global warming." However, they wrongly believe that others do not think the same.
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🌦️ Weather forecasts much more accurate. 🥛 Genetically modified cows can produce milk containing insulin. 📉 New study: Poverty has decreased more than we thought, as has inequality – including within countries. 🐖 Genetically modified pig kidney transplanted into human for the first time.
💡 Warp News #226
🌦️ Weather forecasts much more accurate. 🥛 Genetically modified cows can produce milk containing insulin. 📉 New study: Poverty has decreased more than we thought, as has inequality – including within countries. 🐖 Genetically modified pig kidney transplanted into human for the first time.
🔋 Towards the Energy Society - part 1
Jonas Birgersson made it into the history books as Sweden's foremost champion of the internet revolution. Now, he's using everything he learned then to do it again. This time it's an energy revolution.
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🧒🏿 Milestone as the number of child deaths falls below 5 million for the first time. 🚀 Starship takes another step forward, reaches orbit velocity. 🧬 Reviving the mammoth is getting closer. 🦐 Discovery of 100 new marine species.
🦾 One year since the AI pause: Excerpt from The Centaur's Edge in Quillette
Exactly one year ago, Max Tegmark and several others suggested a pause in AI development. In a talk, Tegmark announced that humanity is toast anyway. AI will obliterate us. Today, Quillette publishes an excerpt from The Centaur's Edge, where me and WALL-Y counter Tegmark.
🏆 The amateur nearly beat the grandmasters
Did Warp News win? AI writer WALL-Y was nominated for Innovation of the Year at the Newspaper Publishers' gala. The competitors in the same category were Aftonbladet and Expressen, two media with budgets several thousand percent larger. How can we compete in the same category?
💡 Warp News #225
🧒🏿 UN: Milestone as the number of child deaths falls below 5 million for the first time. 🚀 Starship takes another step forward, reaches orbit velocity. 🧬 Reviving the mammoth is getting closer. 🦐 Discovery of 100 new marine species.
🚀 Starship will have a major impact, even in the short-term
In the short term, Starship will reduce the cost of sending a kilo to space to two to three percent of what it was a few years ago.