Leben (Life aka misc)
The Disastrous Voyage of Satoshi, the World’s First Cryptocurrency Cruise Ship
The Guardian tells the story of the Satoshi,the converted cruise ship that was supposed to be the libertarian paradise, homesteading the high seas off the coast of Panama, free from rules and regulations and (most of all) taxes, with an economy run on cryptocurrency. The ship was even named “Satoshi,” after the Read more…
Leben (Life aka misc)
Could an Ethically-Correct AI Shut Down Gun Violence?
A trio of computer scientists from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York recently published research detailing a potential AI intervention for murder: an ethical lockout. The big idea here is to stop mass shootings and other ethically incorrect uses for firearms through the development of an AI that can recognize intent, judge Read more…
Leben (Life aka misc)
America is Choking Under an ‘Everything Shortage’
The global supply chain is slowing down at the very moment when Americans are demanding that it go into overdrive. The Atlantic:Is it just me, or does it feel like America is running out of everything? I visited CVS last week to pick up some at-home COVID-19 tests. They’d been sold out Read more…
Leben (Life aka misc) The Planet (on, and off)
Scientists Warn that Sixth Mass Extinction Has ‘Probably Started’
Over the past 450 million years, life on Earth has been devastated by at least five mass extinctions, which are typically defined as catastrophes that wipe out more than 75 percent of species in a short amount of time. Many scientists have proposed that we are entering a Sixth Mass Extinction, Read more…
Leben (Life aka misc) The Planet (on, and off)
NASA Scientists Estimate Tonga Blast At 10 Megatons
According to NASA researchers, the power of a massive volcanic eruption that took place on Saturday near the island nation of Tonga was equivalent to around 10 megatons of TNT. “That means the explosive force was more than 500 times as powerful as the nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, Read more…
Leben (Life aka misc) The Planet (on, and off)
Doomsday Clock Panel To Set Risk of Global Catastrophe
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists to unveil its measure of how close human civilisation is to the edge of extinction. On 24 October 1962, an American nuclear chemist, Harrison Brown, started to pen a guest editorial for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists just as the Cuban missile crisis reached Read more…