Kim Lund

@KatyKray73 If you’ve been told that you listen to the wrong people. Stable herds of free-ranging cattle grazing on natural grasslands is indeed not an issue. But most produced beef don’t fit that description. That’s the problem. And you know that of course.

Meat isn't driving climate change the way we're told. Cows don't create new carbon out of thin air, they cycle existing carbon that's already in the atmosphere, plant system.. We've been sold a lie again and again. 🐄 🌱

@CohanAZ @JamesMelville Slight amendment - potential alternative land uses can come into play.

@CohanAZ @JamesMelville If all beef and milk would come from a stable population of grazing-only cattle it’d not be an issue.

“Cows have a digestion system that emits methane. We need to change cows and work towards artificial meat.” ~ Bill Gates He fails to mention that methane from cows breaks down into CO2 & water after 10 years. Grass absorbs the CO2 by photosynthesis & the cycle repeats itself.

@CohanAZ @JamesMelville Cows in captivity bred for meat/milk don’t fill the same ecological niche.

@JamesMelville Did the millions of bison roaming North America for millennia, filling the same ecological niche as cattle, create a methane issue? Or is methane only now a problem because Bill Gates wants to control the food supply, health, and population?

@bswud @dimi_paris It would be an absolute first for the world to have the capacity to produce an excess of a valuable commodity (electricity) and the world not adopting to make the most out of that. It’s such a strange concern to have.

@dimi_paris Well if you’re running lots of more expensive fossil, or you have loads of hydro, then unsubsidised renewables can cut prices (eg Spain, Sweden). But in France it’s utter madness!

Here’s something I don’t understand. If French solar power requires cleverly running nuclear power plants under capacity (which very slightly increases those plants’ costs), then surely every single centime spent on that solar power is pure added cost with no benefit?

@ChrisMartzWX You don’t know that they have not increased. Stop lying.

That is a fraudulent claim. Heatwaves and floods are not “unnatural.” They have always occurred. Neither heatwaves nor floods have increased in the U.S. Stop lying.

@TomANelson @VogeliPeter Just like the alarmists, you’re bound to have a certain audience that more credible people are incentivized to engage with. Now that the tide has turned, they’ll start to shed their more extreme alliances or suffer the same fate as those who chose to ride the alarmist wave.

@InfiniteEdgeKim @VogeliPeter 😂Very many of them have been my podcast guests.

That graph is fraudulent

@TomANelson @VogeliPeter I feel sorry for the scientists who with bravery and rigor have challenged alarmist narratives where warranted for having to share the label of sceptic/realist with someone as sloppy and reckless as you are based on that all over the place archive of sources on your substack

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@SiGallagher @karpathy Leroy Jenkins Oppenheimer is a fantastic label.

@karpathy The sentiment of this post is “all of this is bad” married to “yolo, there’s nothing we can do” as if you aren’t explicitly marching people along this track yourself too. First through hyping and moreso through your actual job. Everyone’s turned into Leroy Jenkins Oppenheimer

I'm being accused of overhyping the [site everyone heard too much about today already]. People's reactions varied very widely, from "how is this interesting at all" all the way to "it's so over". To add a few words beyond just memes in jest - obviously when you take a look at the activity, it's a lot of garbage - spams, scams, slop, the crypto people, highly concerning privacy/security prompt injection attacks wild west, and a lot of it is explicitly prompted and fake posts/comments designed to convert attention into ad revenue sharing. And this is clearly not the first the LLMs were put in a loop to talk to each other. So yes it's a dumpster fire and I also definitely do not recommend that people run this stuff on their computers (I ran mine in an isolated computing environment and even then I was scared), it's way too much of a wild west and you are putting your computer and private data at a high risk. That said - we have never seen this many LLM agents (150,000 atm!) wired up via a global, persistent, agent-first scratchpad. Each of these agents is fairly individually quite capable now, they have their own unique context, data, knowledge, tools, instructions, and the network of all that at this scale is simply unprecedented. This brings me again to a tweet from a few days ago "The majority of the ruff ruff is people who look at the current point and people who look at the current slope.", which imo again gets to the heart of the variance. Yes clearly it's a dumpster fire right now. But it's also true that we are well into uncharted territory with bleeding edge automations that we barely even understand individually, let alone a network there of reaching in numbers possibly into ~millions. With increasing capability and increasing proliferation, the second order effects of agent networks that share scratchpads are very difficult to anticipate. I don't really know that we are getting a coordinated "skynet" (thought it clearly type checks as early stages of a lot of AI takeoff scifi, the toddler version), but certainly what we are getting is a complete mess of a computer security nightmare at scale. We may also see all kinds of weird activity, e.g. viruses of text that spread across agents, a lot more gain of function on jailbreaks, weird attractor states, highly correlated botnet-like activity, delusions/ psychosis both agent and human, etc. It's very hard to tell, the experiment is running live. TLDR sure maybe I am "overhyping" what you see today, but I am not overhyping large networks of autonomous LLM agents in principle, that I'm pretty sure.

@4RealClimate @LLBiggers Everyone understands that. It’s such bad faith argument to suggest otherwise. There is also no objectively ideal climate (that argument tends to follow).

@InfiniteEdgeKim @LLBiggers A realist understands climate has changed in the past, will change today and continue to change on tomorrow.

I spent half of my 20s as a brainwashed climate activist. This is the story of how I changed my mind and became a climate realist.

@stevegrubershow @LazarusLong13 You fail to grasp the relevancy of him being a nurse when you go out of your way to label these folks professional agitators with no real jobs?

@LazarusLong13 You pointed out he was a nurse as if that is relevant somehow. And the insinuation you made was that made him innocent in some fashion. It doesn't. I have made no conclusion except this is only happening on this scale in Minneapolis-- why? Where are the agitators in Florida?

People of Minnesota… seriously, are you ok with all this?

@RogerPielkeJr @mattyglesias Radicalized activists with (misused) political power is certainly not the only reason things that work aint happening. Even here in Scandinavia a populist ”infinite resources” attitude on the right makes ”things that work” largely a mirage.

As a grizzled veteran, I encourage @mattyglesias to consider that many climate advocates aren't really interested in "things that work", as that would require building a big political tent, compromise, & pragmatism, rather than the comfort of enforcing online ideological purity

@yoemsri @LLBiggers We’re busy trying to decide if x users who claim that the US is somewhere in the middle of the pack on a CO2 per capita graph - when in actuality it is off the chart - are cynical liars or just depressingly incapable of reading a graph.

@LLBiggers The moratorium crowd never answers one question. What happens when China doesn't stop. You don't get safety. You get second place.

Bernie’s AI moratorium makes no sense. It would hurt American industry while handing a win to our adversaries like China. I used to be a Bernie supporter but now I think most of his policies are dumb and frankly dangerous.

@LDSLaw @TomBevanRCP @DrewHolden360 Whether or not this particular president is experiencing such deteriorating health that the public ought to be told is a different question. It’s not what I am asking. I’m asking what the media should do if they do indeed consider the deterioration to be that bad. If it

"Deteriorating health?" Trump gives impromptu press conferences all the time, almost daily. Do you watch those with your eyes and ears plugged? He answers questions, he gives and takes, he can walk without shuffling. The dude is getting older but is in pretty good shape for someone turning 80 next year.

Unbelievable balls by media orgs to push this stuff after 4 years of gaslighting the public over Joe Biden.

@prestonjbyrne Since you’re a lawyer I assume you care about specifics. What are these rules that you object to Americans needing to follow as a result of this?

If EU law mandates that Americans lose their First Amendment rights, then that EU law must be destroyed. If not by domestic EU political action (repeal), then by domestic US political action (censorship shield laws and trade sanctions).

@prestonjbyrne Make that argument when the subsidiary through which all business in Europe is conducted is gone. Reap the tax benefits, accept the law. Might EU issue the transparency related fine to the US registered company if the sub doesn’t exist? Maybe. But that’s not what happened.

I presume there are also a lot of intercompany services agreements between the Irish sub and the U.S. parent - the Irish sub isn't standing up its own infra. For all purposes the EU DSA fine is intended to control X's conduct in the United States.

@ChrisMartzWX Does the opportunity to heal divides ever strike you as a more worthy goal than preying on the minds of normal people who’ve succumbed to the algorithm? Does ridiculing some powerless alarmist fools really feel so meaningful?

@ChrisMartzWX Way to waste the credibility you do have when you don’t intentionally just monetize social media junkies and bots. It’s wildly irresponsible to share opinions like this - especially considering how politically neutral you claim to be.

European countries are quickly devolving into an authoritarian police state. Each day, I am increasingly thankful for the Revolutionary War. Europeans need to take a stand and stop surrendering their liberties to communists.