…is a palm tree that will soon grow in Alaska, you might just be a Warmist
The blog of the day is Legal Insurrection, with a post on “Judge Temporarily Blocks U. California From Enforcing Misgendering Policy Against Conservative Group”
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Thomas Friedman is utterly losing his mind, not really surprising over AI, with a side plate of TDS
A.I.: Let’s Not Have Another Failure of Imagination
“Looks like by April, you know, in theory, when it gets a little warmer, it miraculously goes away.”
That’s what President Trump said about the Covid-19 outbreak on Feb. 10, 2020, about a month before it forced our country and the world into a lengthy lockdown.
Tommy does understand that lockdowns were primarily driven by Democrats, including his own paper, right?
Why do I recall that today? Because when I think back on the biggest disaster stories I have covered — including 9/11 and Covid-19 — I am struck that they have one big thing in common: a failure of imagination. Sure, government experts prepared for these events in theory, but in practice how many of them imagined that suicidal terrorists would fly commercial airliners into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon? And how many imagined that a respiratory virus that emerged in Wuhan, China, would kill millions of people and drag down the world economy for years? So today, when it comes to the possibility that artificial intelligence, which is falling into the hands of rogue actors and is beginning to manifest a will of its own, could become incredibly destabilizing, my imagination is fully engaged.
He’s seriously using an important phrase used by the 9/11 Commission to push AI doom conspiracy? And thinking millions will die like COVID? Well, hey, maybe if governments around the world had acted correctly, realizing that those in danger were the older and with conditions, rather than freaking everyone, that a lot of lives could have been saved and the economies wouldn’t have been in trouble and still having trouble. Do we really want government running all the AI companies when government failed so badly on COVID? And, to a degree, 9/11? That it was government which enabled the creation of COVID by giving money to China to do research.
Here is what my imagination is telling me. It is telling me that the big A.I. companies in America and China are not being candid with us about how little even they understand the power and reach of the models they have developed, like sorcerers, in their labs. It is telling me that the Trump administration, headed by a man who so often governs by social media post, is uniquely unsuited to the kind of comprehensive, sustained, coordinated governance that keeping A.I. safe demands. And it is telling me that there is so much at stake — economically, militarily and technologically — and so little trust between Washington and Beijing that it would take a miracle for the United States and China to agree on the kind of deep collaboration needed to defuse the most nightmarish threats posed by A.I.
Well, at least he gets the notion that government is untrustworthy and foolish with his side of TDS.
It is still not too late, though, for radical rethinking before something very bad happens that forces all the key players to do things they never imagined, things they will have to do in the middle of a full-blown A.I.-driven crisis. I’d rather be remembered as the boy who cried wolf when the wolf never came than as someone who got eaten by it.
So here goes: “Wolf, wolf, wolf, wolf.”
The same NY Times wouldn’t cover Biden’s declining mental health or Hunter’s laptop.
But I will breathe a sigh of relief only when I see Washington and Beijing put their heads together with their respective A.I. companies to draw up a long-term plan for how they can continue to compete on A.I. technologies, while simultaneously agreeing on internal A.I. guardrails to prevent increasingly capable A.I. systems from, on their own, creating catastrophic cybersecurity, biological, nuclear or financial risks. This a geopolitical, geoeconomic and technological challenge no generation of American and Chinese statesmen has ever before faced. They dodge it at their, and our, peril.
Yes, yes, he does go on a rant in wanting the same governments that failed for COVID and September 11th to be in charge of AI. With a decent side of TDS.
“We’ve unleashed Darwin in silicon,” Beinhocker explained. The latest A.I. models have demonstrated a capacity for “self-improvement, self-replication and self-preservation. When you put those three things together, and their evolution happens at silicon speed, not human speed, you’ve got something extremely powerful, potentially dangerous and impossible to control.”
This becomes even more true as we begin to give our A.I. systems bodies in the form of robots, drones and vehicles. We must ensure that there is always a human in the loop — that they are never fully autonomous — until we can guarantee these systems will always operate in line with human well-being, Beinhocker added.
Would these be the same humans who had a failure of imagination? Liberals are nuts.
Read: Good Grief: NY Times Compares Coming AI Doom To 9/11 »
It’s so weird that none of the media or cult players want to talk about the utter lack of hurricanes in the Atlantic
Climate change boosts extreme ocean heat fueling Hurricane Polo
As of September 22, Hurricane Polo underwent extreme rapid intensification, reaching Category 5 strength with sustained winds of 165 mph off the southwestern coast of Mexico.
Heavy rainfall associated with the storm is expected to bring life-threatening flooding and mudslides to coastal communities along southwestern Mexico. The moisture from Hurricane Polo is also increasing the risk of dangerous flooding in the U.S. Southwest.
Exceptionally warm Pacific sea surface temperatures (SSTs) exceeding 31°C (88°F) helped fuel the storm’s rapid intensification. These unusually warm ocean temperatures have been made at least 100 to 200 times more likely due to human-caused climate change, significantly enhancing the storm’s potential strength.
What about that El Nino thingy, Cultists?
So, despite a pretty warm Atlantic and Caribbean, no hurricanes. Even simple tropical storms and depressions are virtually non-existent.
This does actually surprise me. Usually the cult is a lot more on the ball in finding ways to blame/link anthropogenic climate. I remember them yapping about wind shear and other things years ago, so, why nothing now? Is their focus on Trump Derangement Syndrome causing the lack of stories?
Read: Your Fault: Super Warm Pacific Leads To Hurricanes (but, not in Atlantic) »
Seriously, this is the way it should be. But, government is idiotic and has allowed illegals to do these crazy things
Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Is Changing How Undocumented People Bank
The relationship between American lenders and non-US citizens has grown more distant than ever.
Immigrants are closing bank accounts in favor of storing cash at home and may be borrowing less, rights advocates and data analysts say. The share of consumer loans to a group of borrowers that includes many undocumented people has slumped by more than 70% since 2024, according to a recent report. And some lenders say they are becoming more cautious about extending credit to undocumented people, said an industry group representative who asked not to be named discussing sensitive matters.
The very fact that they know all this data about illegals is rather disturbing. It’s like they don’t care that people are in the nation illegally
Many migrants living in the US have long found it hard to access the country’s banking system. But in the months since the Trump administration embarked on America’s most sweeping immigration crackdown in decades, the connections between immigrant families and lenders are coming loose, according to immigration lawyers, rights organizations and financial-sector groups.
Good.
“We’ve seen a reduction overall in people who come for financial services, education services, workforce development,” said Erica Serna, associate director of financial empowerment for UnidosUS, the largest Hispanic civil rights group in the US. In the government’s actions, she sees a de-emphasis on due process and the law “that is truly frightening for families.”
Are they here illegally? Yes. Then what due process is necessary?
“These regulations are a tool of fear more than anything else,” said Ben D’Avanzo, senior strategist for federal advocacy at the National Immigration Law Center. “Banks are part of the overall environment of fear that immigrants are experiencing.”
Double good.
Read: Bummer: Illegals Are Scared To Keep Money In Banks, Borrow Money »
David Miliband had been the foreign secretary and environment secretary for the UK government. He’s still pushing the scam, but, only on Other People, as he flies, surely private, across the Atlantic on a fossil fueled plane which is certainly climate controlled inside
The world is burning – more air conditioning is not the answer to the climate crisis
The ministerial week of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) is meant to be the moment when the world comes together. Yet today fracture and fragmentation is dominant. Bad faith drives out good ideas. Hard power makes a mockery of international law. Even those with shared goals too often operate in silos.
This dynamic is especially dangerous when the world is more connected than ever before. And it is more egregious when the world has more resources than ever before. We are witnessing a catastrophic collapse of global leadership at the exact moment humanity has all the risks of hyper-connectivity and all the potential of untold capital.
My topic today addresses this dynamic. The twin and overlapping perils of war and climate change are breaking records. Yet political will, financial investment, and media attention have vanished.
In other words, the climate scam money is drying up, and papa needs a new mansion
This year there has been more coverage, MUCH more coverage, of the need for air conditioning in Europe than of the drought in Afghanistan, or desertification in the Sahel, or food insecurity in Somalia. For the next 25 minutes, I will turn the tables. More air conditioning is not the answer for the people who I want to place centre stage today.
For these hundreds of millions of people, the question is not whether a house is comfortable, but whether a family has safe shelter. Not whether the train runs on time, but whether the harvest comes at all. Not whether water use is restricted, but whether there is any safe water to drink. And not simply whether temperatures rise, but how rising temperatures interact with conflict, poverty, and political fragility in ways that destroy the mechanisms people once relied upon to survive.
In other words, he’s saying you peasants do not need air conditioning and should not be allowed to have air condition by government force, all while staying at a hotel/house with AC and going to the UN building which has AC. I notice he’s not demanding that the AC be turned off at the UN building for the meeting.
Anyhow, it is a very, very long piece, ending with
In two months’ time, global leaders will come together at COP31 in Türkiye. COP31 offers another opportunity to identify ways of making climate finance easier to access and deliver in fragile countries. It is vital to move from words at global convenings to action year-round. We have declarations and statements from Dubai and Baku to build on with practical steps to simplify bureaucratic processes, invest in local capacity, recalibrate risk calculations, and incentivise innovation – with a focus on outcomes for people.
We have no time to lose.
Most importantly, the poorest people in the world need us all to make up for lost time now.
Interesting. Will 50K take fossil fueled trips to Turkey? I do love how the Elites like to speak for the poor, and tell them how they are allowed to live their lives.
Read: David Miliband Take Fossil Fueled Flight To Tell Peasants They Don’t Need AC »
…is a horrible carbon pollution beer, you might just be a Warmist
The blog of the day is Irons In The Fire, with a post on “Short version: “My virtue signaling bit my kid in the ass,”
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Looks like the scammers at the United Nations want in
UN panel calls for guardrails on AI as current safeguards are ‘unraveling’
The United Nations-backed Independent International Scientific Panel on AI on Monday urged world leaders and tech companies to implement new safeguards on artificial intelligence, with the concern that existing safeguards are “unraveling.”
U.N. Secretary General Antonio Gueterres welcomed the report and encouraged “external experts, including from frontier AI labs and AI safety institutes, to engage with the panel to help inform dialogue on such matters.”
“This is not only a question of speed,” the panel’s experts said in a report released by UN News. “It leaves open whether safeguards designed today will work once agents can understand them and plan around them. In simple terms, the traditional model of safeguarding is unravelling.”
The panel released a brief called “AI Agents, Misalignment and Loss of Human Control Risks: Evidence from the OpenAI-Hugging Face Incident.” The document details how the hack carried out by “AI agents” during a test run by OpenAI on the online platform Hugging Face occurred after a security breach.
Panelists said this incident raises “fears that humans will one day no longer be able to steer, constrain or stop AI,” noting that in their report that it was “an early warning of one possible route to more severe future loss of control.”
It’s only as good as it was programed, but, this is a great way to enable the authoritarians in the UN to control it. Oh, and make lots of money off it themselves.
And it involves economics. I wonder what the solutions will be?
Climate change is a math problem. The solution is smart economics.
For too long, we’ve treated economic forces as enemies of the environment. I get it; climate change is a consequence of economic activity. But economic growth also alleviates poverty, improves health and longevity, and inspires innovation. There’s no reason why we can’t harness economic incentives as a driver for climate action, too.
To do that effectively and responsibly, we need to “Money Ball” climate change. That means analyzing what works and what doesn’t and accelerating the solutions that deliver. I believe that, at its heart, climate change is a math problem: a 53 gigaton (GT) math problem.
As a society, we emit around 53 billion metric tons of climate-warming gases—from our cars, energy use, agriculture, and other human activity—into the atmosphere each year. To put that into perspective, that’s roughly equivalent to the pollution of 12 billion gas-powered cars each year. You don’t have to be an atmospheric chemist to see how that could affect the climate.
So, if all the Warmists gave up their own use of fossil fuels, stopped eating meat, moved into tiny homes, etc, we could cut that in half, right? Why won’t Warmists do this?
There are hundreds of ways to make progress on climate change. But from an economist’s perspective, the reality is that while many approaches can help reduce emissions, they may also make life less affordable or hinder economic growth in the most vulnerable parts of the world. And they likely won’t become economically viable until it’s too late.
Looking at the economics gives us a reality check: We need to be honest about which climate solutions can truly work at scale, with the rigor this problem demands, while also accelerating economic growth. That might sound counter-intuitive to those who think economic growth and rising climate pollution go hand-in-hand, but the economics also show us that’s no longer the case; with the right solutions, we can achieve both.
OK, so, free market, right?
Scale: Compliance carbon pricing to reliably drive economy-wide change
When the carbon pollution of goods and services is priced into its cost, it automatically creates an incentive to reduce carbon emissions. For example, food or electricity produced with less pollution would become cheaper than similar goods with a high carbon footprint. This encourages producers to innovate and adopt low-carbon production methods and guides consumers toward low-carbon choices.
Who runs these? Government, right? Where does the money go? To government. And then most disappears into slush, graft, and waste. We’ve been through all this, I won’t go deep again.
We need to price carbon into land-use decisions giving landowners, farmers, Indigenous Peoples, and forest managers tangible economic value for storing carbon. Done right, a farmer or community could receive steady income for protecting forests, mangroves, or other natural carbon stocks.
And guess who is going to be able to control everyone’s land? To have input in how it is used? To make sure it conforms to what the Warmists in government want? Your land will no longer be yours. Surprise?
Read: The Climate Crisis (scam) Is A Math Problem Or Something »
I certainly understand the ruling in favor of the plaintiff: ICE 100% went over the line in this. But, to demand that ICE stop with 2 of the 3 policies? Nah. Complete overreach
Federal judge orders temporary halt to 3 immigration enforcement policies in Baldwin County lawsuit
A federal judge Monday ordered federal law enforcement officers to stop enforcing three immigration policies challenged by a Baldwin County man who claims he was the victim of illegal action.
Leo Venegas, an American citizen born in Florida, cited two different instances when immigration officers detained him at construction sites where he was working in Baldwin County last year. Chief U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Beaverstock largely agreed with Venegas, ruling that federal agents likely violated his constitutional rights.
Venegas sued in Mobile’s federal court, citing three policies:
- Warrantless entry. Venegas alleged that federal policy allowed agents to raid private construction sites without warrants.
- Preemptive detention. Venegas alleged that federal policy allowed agents to detain employees without specific suspicion that they are in the country unlawfully.
- Continued detention. Venegas alleged that federal policy allowed agents to continue holding workers even after they presented REAL ID-compliant driver’s licenses.
The government maintains that none of the three policies actually exist but that granting a preliminary injunction would “curtail Congressionally authorized Federal law enforcement of Executive Branch immigration policies, hinder lawful investigative searches, and chill routine field operations.”
The judge basically says that it should be no problem if the policies do not exist. As to the 1st, raiding, well, yeah, no policy, but, federal law allows this. The 2nd, I fully agree with the judge. If there is no suspicion, let them go. Period. The 3rd? Supposedly an illegal alien, which is the term used in federal code, cannot get a Real ID. However, there is the legal status, such as a green card, valid visa, DACA, or pending asylum, as provided by the Biden regime, which can cause state DMVs to give a real ID to tons and tons of illegal aliens when they really shouldn’t.
The lawsuit against DHS and ICE can continue.
…is a wonderful low carbon mode of transportation, you might just be a Warmist
The blog of the day is Blogs For Victory, with a post on “Racism Fatigue”
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