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In a new paper, climate researchers looked at the contribution of reduced atmospheric albedo due to pollution reduction, and found that it contributed to 0.2+\-0.1 w/m^2/decade of excess solar absorption out of a total of 0.47 w/m^2/decade. This means that a surprising 40% of global warming may be attributable to cleaning up air pollution: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-024-01324-8 The good news here is that this effect will probably wane with time as aerosol pollution is reduced to lower baseline levels, while the actual effect of green house emissions may be more manageable than ori ..read more

I know it is hard to predict the future, but I would like to know if there is a country that has all the conditions to achieve the enough economic growth to be somehow similar to Western Europe, the Anglosphere or some Eastern Asian, or at least, improve massively their situation. submitted by /u/random5427 [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

Been thinking about this lately. AR glasses that overlay information into the world would be very useful and do many things that phones and laptops/desktops cannot do. I think we're going to need some big advances in battery tech first but it's a very exciting future full of lots of possibilities. One of the things I'd really like is a large TV screen in my backyard so I can chill outside while still watching movies or have more screens for when I'm watching sports so I can have more detailed statistics in my vision. Do you think Augmented Reality is the future and is going to change the worl ..read more

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https://x.com/garymarcus/status/1781014601452392819?s=46 Here are seven reasons to doubt Kurzweil’s projection: • Current systems are wildly greedy, data-wise, and possibly running out of useful, fresh data. • There is no solid solution to the hallucination problem. • Bizarre errors are still an everyday occurrence. • Reasoning remains hit or miss. • Planning remains poor. • Current systems can’t sanity check their own work. • Engineering them together with other systems is unstable. We may be 80% of the way there, but nobody has a clear plan for getting to the last 20%. submitted by /u/Bilg ..read more

The next 5-6 years will bring about so much change in the world, I don’t think anyone can really fathom it right now. Even those deeply entrenched in the industry already likely have only a partial understand of where this could lead. Everyone is so hyped about Generative AI. Investors are discussing fundamentals of companies being way out of sorts due to the hype, some comparing this to the dotCom bubble. I think we haven’t seen even the first atomic layer of the proverbial iceberg yet. Once AI truly takes off things will shift massively and the world will change in very noticeable ways. As ..read more