Category: Only Words
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Welcome to Gas-tralia.
Meanwhile.….WTF, the Australian government has signed off on Australia’s biggest fossil fuel project, the North West Shelf extension. Allowing Woodside’s massive North West Shelf gas export terminal to run for another 46 years means 4.3 billion tonnes of emissions, equivalent to 12 new coal-fired power stations each year. “The North West Shelf facility is one of…
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Every time you use AI, you are part of a BIG problem.
Every time you use AI (and you will use it more and more without even knowing it), you are draining our planet’s battery. An article in Technology Review tries to figure out just how much. So what might a day’s energy consumption look like for one person with an AI habit? Let’s say you’re running…
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Exploring new things.
I’m going through a phase of trying out experiences that I would not usually bother with. Life is too short for missed opportunities. To wit: today I loaded up a playlist of FUNK METAL to listen to whilst I was at the gym. Not a fan.
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The science of consciousness.
I think this is a really good overview of the latest understandings in quantum science and consciousness ( don’t be put off by the ‘technical’ language in some parts). Watch it through and you will gain some appreciation of how science is beginning to understand that consciousness is not produced by the brain, that we…