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<p><font size="+2"><font face="Calibri"><i><b>April</b></i></font></font><font
size="+2" face="Calibri"><i><b> 25, 2023</b></i></font><font
face="Calibri"><br>
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<font face="Calibri"> <i>[ an important consideration - Amanpour
report ]</i></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> <b>How Crypto & Emerging Technologies are
Blind Spots for Climate Activism | Amanpour and Company</b></font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Amanpour and Company</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Apr 21, 2023 #amanpourpbs</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">A U.N. agency has today revealed that global
sea levels are rising at double the previously recorded rate. The
World Meteorological Organization’s report, released ahead of
Earth Day on Saturday, also shows Antarctica’s sea ice receding to
record lows last year, with ocean temperatures the warmest on
record. As the Biden administration commits another $1 billion to
the international effort to fight climate change, Hari asks
climate activist John Oppermann if there is still hope of averting
disaster.</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Originally aired on April 21, 2023.</font><font
face="Calibri"><br>
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href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbwQjSVVL_0">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbwQjSVVL_0</a></font>
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ this is a deeper consideration of the dire
and dangerous aspects of global AI systems - start about 50 mins
in - try to skip or ignore the commercial interruptions - this
is a philosophical dive that is worth the effort to hear - also
note the chapter sections ]</i><br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><b>Misalignment, AI & Moloch |
Daniel Schmachtenberger and Liv Boeree</b><br>
Liv Boeree<br>
Mar 30, 2023<br>
A deep dive into the game theory and exponential growth underlying
our modern economic system, and how recent advancements in AI are
poised to turn up the pressure on that system, and its wider
environment, in ways we have never seen before. Not a conversation
for the faint hearted, but crucial nonetheless.<br>
<br>
Daniel Schmachtenberger is a founding member of The Consilience
Project, aimed at improving public sensemaking and dialogue around
global catastrophic risks and technology.<br>
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<blockquote><font face="Calibri">Chapters:</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">00:00 Introduction</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">03:21 Moloch Framework</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">13:20 Meta Crisis</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">27:52 Bad People or Bad System?</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">32:13 Capitalism & Moloch</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">40:12 Misalignment</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">52:35 Incentive Pressures Driving
Misalignment</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">58:02 Moloch Driving AI Development</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">01:01:54 AI Risks Pre AGI</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">01:08:35 AI Accelerates Existing Systemic
Issues</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">01:16:39 Social Media</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">01:20:09 Alternative Goals</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">01:25:00 Cooperation on AI</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">01:29:20 Call to Action</font><br>
</blockquote>
<font face="Calibri">This video is part of a series on game theory,
civilizational risk, and Moloch: the God of unhealthy competition.
It is the bad guy of humanity’s story, and time is running out for
us to figure out how to defeat it. <br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCSsKV5F4xc">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCSsKV5F4xc</a><br>
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</font></p>
<i><font face="Calibri">[ here is a shock, SCOTUS pushes back at the
fossil fuel industry ]</font></i><br>
<font face="Calibri"><b>US Supreme Court rebuffs Exxon, Chevron
appeals in climate cases</b><br>
By Clark Mindock and Nate Raymond<br>
</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">April 24 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on
Monday declined to hear bids by Exxon Mobil Corp (XOM.N), Suncor
Energy Inc (SU.TO), Chevron Corp (CVX.N) and others to move
lawsuits filed by state and local governments accusing the oil
companies of worsening climate change out of state courts and into
federal courts.<br>
<br>
The justices turned away five appeals by the oil companies of
lower court decisions that determined that the lawsuits belonged
in state court, a venue often seen as more favorable to plaintiffs
than federal court. The lawsuits were filed by the state of Rhode
Island and municipalities or counties in California, Colorado,
Hawaii and Maryland...</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">- -</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Numerous state and local governments have
pursued litigation against oil companies seeking climate-related
damages. A separate appeal filed by the oil companies challenging
lower court decisions in cases out of New Jersey and Delaware is
still pending before the Supreme Court.<br>
<br>
Theodore Boutrous, an attorney for Chevron, expressed confidence
that the cases will be dismissed in state court. Boutrous said the
lawsuits are an issue of "national and global magnitude" that
require a coordinated federal response, "not a disjointed
patchwork" of actions from numerous state courts.<br>
<br>
"These wasteful lawsuits in state courts will do nothing to
advance global climate solutions, nothing to reduce emissions and
nothing to address climate-related impacts," Boutrous added...</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">- -<br>
</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">In that 7-1 ruling, the justices concluded that
a federal appeals court had not correctly analyzed whether a
lawsuit filed by the city of Baltimore against companies including
Chevron, Exxon and BP Plc (BP.L) should be heard in federal court.<br>
<br>
That decision prompted other federal appeals courts to reconsider
whether they should send similar lawsuits by state and local
governments back to state courts.<br>
<br>
Those cases included one filed in 2018 by the city of Boulder and
by Colorado's San Miguel and Boulder counties against Exxon and
Suncor. The lawsuit said the companies created a public and
private nuisance and violated state consumer protection laws, with
the jurisdictions seeking to force Exxon and Suncor to pay for
their costs of adapting to climate change. The oil companies have
denied the allegations.<br>
<br>
The Denver-based 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in 2022
concluded that the lawsuit did not belong in federal court because
none of the grounds cited by the companies to change the venue
supported giving federal courts jurisdiction. Four other appeals
courts reached similar conclusions in the lawsuits by Rhode Island
and jurisdictions in California, Colorado, Hawaii and Maryland.<br>
<br>
President Joe Biden's administration in March urged the justices
not to take up the appeal by Exxon and Suncor, arguing that no
federal questions had been raised. That marked a reversal of the
position taken by former President Donald Trump's administration
when the Supreme Court last considered the issue.<br>
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<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-supreme-court-rebuffs-exxon-chevron-appeals-climate-litigation-2023-04-24/">https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-supreme-court-rebuffs-exxon-chevron-appeals-climate-litigation-2023-04-24/</a></font>
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<font face="Calibri"> <i>[ for your general geological foundation
- maybe reassuring that humans don't always cause extinctions ]</i></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> </font> <font face="Calibri"><b>Mass
Extinction Causes Nobody Talks About! (& Addressing Comments
;) | GEO GIRL</b></font><br>
<font face="Calibri">GEO GIRL</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Apr 23, 2023</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">I recently posted a video about the Top 3 Mass
Extinction causes ( </font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri"> • The Major Causes ... ), and I got a lot of
comments on that video mentioning other potential causes. In this
video, I talk about all the lesser known mass extinction causes
and I address a lot of the comments from that previous video. The
top 3 I discussed in the previous video include global warming,
CO2 increase & associated ocean acidification, and ocean
anoxia. The other non-top 3 but still quite devastating causes of
mass extinctions include SO2 and ash-caused global cooling, SO2
and CO2 caused acid rain, HCl and HF caused acid rain, Cl and CH4
caused ozone destruction, toxic substances like Hg or H2S released
by volcanos or produced by bacteria during ocean anoxic events,
and astronomical effects like nearby supernovae or gamma ray
bursts. I hope you enjoy learning about what triggers these
conditions and how they affect life on Earth during mass
extinction events!</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">- -</font><br>
<blockquote><font face="Calibri">0:00 List of Mass Extinction Events</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">2:48 Top 3 Mass Extinction Causes</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">3:46 Warming vs Warmth Clarification!</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">4:52 Top 2 Mass Extinction Triggers</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">5:35 Extinction Causes Nobody Talks About</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">6:43 Response to Comments About Cooling</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">8:20 SO2 Caused Cooling</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">12:02 CO2 & SO2 Caused Acid Rain</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">13:14 HCl & HF Caused Acid Rain</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">14:20 Cl & CH4 Caused Ozone Destruction</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">16:25 Toxic Substances (H2S, Hg, etc.)</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">18:42 Direct Impact Effects (e.g., Wildfires)</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">21:12 Global Cooling</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">21:58 Gamma Ray Bursts or Supernovae</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">23:20 Related Videos!</font><br>
</blockquote>
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<font face="Calibri"><b>Non-textbook books I recommend: </b></font><br>
<blockquote><font face="Calibri">Oxygen by D. Canfield: <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://amzn.to/3gffbCL">https://amzn.to/3gffbCL</a>
</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Brief history of Earth by A. Knoll: <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://amzn.to/3w3hC1I">https://amzn.to/3w3hC1I</a>
</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Life on young planet by A. Knoll: <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://amzn.to/2RBMpny">https://amzn.to/2RBMpny</a>
</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Some assembly required by N. Shubin: <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://amzn.to/3w1Ezm2">https://amzn.to/3w1Ezm2</a>
</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Your inner fish by N. Shubin: <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://amzn.to/3cpw3Wb">https://amzn.to/3cpw3Wb</a>
</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Oxygen by N. Lane: <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://amzn.to/3z4FgwZ">https://amzn.to/3z4FgwZ</a>
</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Alien Oceans by K. Hand: <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://amzn.to/3clMx1l">https://amzn.to/3clMx1l</a>
</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Life's Engines: <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://amzn.to/3w1Nhke">https://amzn.to/3w1Nhke</a></font><br>
</blockquote>
<font face="Calibri"><b>Tools I use as a geologist/teacher/student:
</b></font><br>
<blockquote><font face="Calibri">Geology field notebook: <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://amzn.to/3lb6dJf">https://amzn.to/3lb6dJf</a></font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Geology rock hammer: <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://amzn.to/3DZw8MA">https://amzn.to/3DZw8MA</a></font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Geological compass: <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://amzn.to/3hfbdLu">https://amzn.to/3hfbdLu</a></font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Geological hand lens: <a
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<font face="Calibri">Camera: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://amzn.to/3l6fGRT">https://amzn.to/3l6fGRT</a></font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Carbon-neutral pencil bag: <a
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<font face="Calibri">Carbon-neutral backpack: <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://shrsl.com/3cvkc">https://shrsl.com/3cvkc</a></font><br>
</blockquote>
<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XA3iG8MPrl8">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XA3iG8MPrl8</a></font><br>
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ opinion - is affluence harmful? This is
an unhinged rant ]</i><br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><b>Are Rich People Okay? – SOME MORE
NEWS</b><br>
Some More News<br>
Apr 5, 2023 Billionaires Are Not Your Friends<br>
Hi. In today's episode, we look at what being rich does to your
perception of yourself and others, the eccentricities of the super
wealthy, how they use their money to hold influence over our
political systems, and the dystopian future they envision for all
of us.<br>
<br>
Executive Producer - Katy Stoll<br>
Directed by Will Gordh<br>
Written by Jonathan Harris<br>
Edited by Gregg Meller<br>
Produced by Jonathan Harris<br>
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03:20 - Are Rich People Okay?<br>
17:55 - Lifestyles of the Rich & Shameless<br>
27:43 - Monopoly Monomania and The Luck of the Draw<br>
36:26 - Rich Pricks and Politics<br>
41:43 -The Pronatalist Movement aka Rich People Eugenics<br>
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<p><font face="Calibri">- -</font></p>
<i><font face="Calibri">[ some wisdom for the affluent - Is any
affluence a burden? ]</font></i><br>
<font face="Calibri"><b>How To Prioritize Individual Giving and
Raise 5 and 6-Figure Gifts Regularly, Without Asking</b><br>
Positive Equation | Dana Snyder | Keynote Speaker<br>
219 views Streamed live on Oct 6, 2021<br>
Giving season is here. Are you hearing crickets in your inbox from
your asks?<br>
<br>
Let this session be your pep talk with some actionable steps to
raise 5 and 6-figure gifts regularly with fundraising consultant
Julie Ordonez.<br>
<br>
We'll chat about:<br>
- Keys to a culture of generosity<br>
- What should fundraisers & development teams be focused on
right now when it comes to individual giving<br>
- How to arrange a powerful donor meeting via Zoom<br>
And much more!<br>
<br>
MASTERCLASS: If you want to learn how to attract new donors and
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<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkZ-wJI3ZUg">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkZ-wJI3ZUg</a><br>
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<font face="Calibri"> <br>
<i>[The news archive - looking back at bias ]</i><br>
<font size="+2"><i><b>April 25, 1999</b></i></font> <br>
April 25, 1999: Reviewing former ABC News correspondent Bob
Zelnick's book "Gore: A Political Life" (which was published by
the right-wing outfit Regnery), the New York Times' Richard L.
Berke notes that the book does a hatchet job on the Vice
President's climate advocacy:<br>
<br>
"For example, while some environmentalists describe Gore's book
'Earth in the Balance' as an impressive work that incorporates his
knowledge of global warming and other issues, Zelnick dismisses it
as 'pathetically one-dimensional in its view of Western
civilization, shabby in its ignorance of economics, simplistic in
its approach to problem solving.'"<br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/04/25/reviews/990425.25berket.html">http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/04/25/reviews/990425.25berket.html</a><br>
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