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AI researchers are taking up smoking because they expect AI to cure cancer, "as a way of signaling to other researchers how much they believe in AI", Palantir CTO tells CBS News' "Face the Nation" (www.businessinsider.com)
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[–] 1 point 3 weeks ago* (2 children)

Pray tell how any non-tree plant removes emissions unless you chuck it into a five-kilometers-deep mine.

Trees specifically only ‘remove emissions’ if you plant more of them than get rotten or burnt.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Algae gets eaten by plankton, which get eaten by whales, which then fall to the bottom of the ocean when dead, which then get eaten by scavengers that live in the ocean floor, which then turn into sediment when they die.

    Also, any plants you eat get turned into shit, which can then be used as fertilizer mixed into the dirt to grow more plants.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago*

    Do oceans not have bacteria that break down organic matter? Does ocean water not contain oxygen that combines with carbon during decomposition?

    plants you eat get turned into shit, which can then be used as fertilizer mixed into the dirt to grow more plants.

    Is animal flesh not turned into shit? Are fertilizers carbon? Or do they rather provide nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium? And even if it is carbon, does shit dumped into fields not rot?

    Your last proposition implies that it's the continuous production of shit and new plants that's keeping the carbon bound. But it means then that the humans are actually the store of carbon. Maybe we should chuck humans into five-kilometers-deep mine shafts.

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