In this weekâs live stream, Iâm going to share clips of my interview with Isaac Arthur, which you can find the full version on the Answers With Joe Podcast: hâŠ
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New research indicates that Australia and New Zealand are the two best places on Earth to survive a nuclear war. The recently published set of calculations donât focus on blast-related deaths or even deaths caused by radiation fall-out, which most estimates say would number in the hundreds of millions, but instead look at how a nuclear winter caused by nuclear bomb explosions would affect food supplies, potentially leading to the starvation of billions.
Nuclear War Simulations Performed For Decades
Since the first atomic bombs were dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, effectively spelling the end of World War II, war game theorists have looked at a myriad of simulations to determine the potential effects of a full-blown nuclear battle. Many simulations look at the potentially hundreds of millions that would likely die in the initial blasts, while others have tried to model the slower but equally as deadly body count from radiation sickness.
On this episode, Daniel Schmachtenberger returns to discuss a surprisingly overlooked risk to our global systems and planetary stability: artificial intelligence. Through a systems perspective, Daniel and Nate piece together the biophysical history that has led humans to this point, heading towards (and beyond) numerous planetary boundaries and facing geopolitical risks all with existential consequences. How does artificial intelligence, not only add to these risks, but accelerate the entire dynamic of the metacrisis? What is the role of intelligence vs wisdom on our current global pathway, and can we change course? Does artificial intelligence have a role to play in creating a more stable system or will it be the tipping point that drives our current one out of control?
About Daniel Schmachtenberger:
Daniel Schmachtenberger is a founding member of The Consilience Project, aimed at improving public sensemaking and dialogue.
The throughline of his interests has to do with ways of improving the health and development of individuals and society, with a virtuous relationship between the two as a goal.
Towards these ends, heâs had particular interest in the topics of catastrophic and existential risk, civilization and institutional decay and collapse as well as progress, collective action problems, social organization theories, and the relevant domains in philosophy and science.
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Danielâs recommended content for further AI learning:
Heads of OpenAI, Google Deepmind and Anthropic say the threat is as great as pandemics and nuclear war.
Hypnotized LLMs can help leak confidential financial information, generate malicious code and even cross red lights.
Tech pundits worldwide have been fluctuating between marking artificial intelligence as the end of all of humanity and calling it the most significant thing humans have ever touched since the internet.
We are in a phase where we are unsure what the AI Pandoraâs box will reveal. Are we heading for doomsday or utopia?
Thereâs no shortage of AI doomsday scenarios to go around, so hereâs another AI expert who pretty bluntly forecasts that the technology will spell the death of us all, as reported by Bloomberg.
This time, itâs not a so-called godfather of AI sounding the alarm bell â or that other AI godfather (is there a committee that decides these things?) â but a controversial AI theorist and provocateur known as Eliezer Yudkowsky, who has previously called for bombing machine learning data centers. So, pretty in character.
âI think weâre not ready, I think we donât know what weâre doing, and I think weâre all going to die,â Yudkowsky said on an episode of the Bloomberg series âAI IRL.â
An asteroid discovery algorithmâdesigned to uncover near-Earth asteroids for the Vera C. Rubin Observatoryâs upcoming 10-year survey of the night skyâhas identified its first âpotentially hazardousâ asteroid, a term for space rocks in Earthâs vicinity that scientists like to keep an eye on.
The roughly 600-foot-long asteroid, designated 2022 SF289, was discovered during a test drive of the algorithm with the ATLAS survey in Hawaii. Finding 2022 SF289, which poses no risk to Earth for the foreseeable future, confirms that the next-generation algorithm, known as HelioLinc3D, can identify near-Earth asteroids with fewer and more dispersed observations than required by todayâs methods.
âBy demonstrating the real-world effectiveness of the software that Rubin will use to look for thousands of yet-unknown potentially hazardous asteroids, the discovery of 2022 SF289 makes us all safer,â said Rubin scientist Ari Heinze, the principal developer of HelioLinc3D and a researcher at the University of Washington.
Itâs possibly the most famous question in all of science â where is everyone? Join us today for deep dive into Fermi Paradox. đ Get exclusive NordVPN deal here â” https://NordVPN.com/coolworlds Itâs risk free with Nordâs 30 day money-back guarantee!â
The Fermi Paradox has been a topic of keen debate amongst scientists, astronomers and the rest of us for more than seven decades. We canât resist the urge to speculate about aliens! But what is the paradox even really about? What explanations have been offered? Today, we explore this famous question, and offer a mind-shifting explanation.
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A rather macabre interactive map demonstrates how the area you live in would be impacted if a nuclear bomb were to hit it. Nuclear war is as big a talking point these days as it ever has been. Advert With Russia and Ukraine still at war, Russian President Vladimir Putin has made some not-so-veiled threats about nuclear weapon use.
A meteor has exploded over the Atlantic Ocean with the force of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Itâs one of the ways that civilisation as we know it could end, with an asteroid impact sending the human race the way of the dinosaurs. Itâs a terrifying prospect, and the film Donât Look Up with Jennifer Lawrence and Leonardo DiCaprio really didnât help matter with its demonstration of the paralysis and greed which could doom humanity.