On the eve of Earth Day 2023, let's take a sobering look at earth's future. Cataclysmic events are soon coming will affect large swaths of humanity, and most of the shifts will be irreversible – Once they occur, there will be no way to undo them. Therefore, if humanity was a wise species, we would be doing everything in our power to prevent these cataclysmic events from happening.
Twenty years from now, humanity will look back at 2022 as a seminal year for AI, a year when a tectonic shift began in AI capabilities. And it is quite likely that the pace of change will only accelerate from here.
There is one end-of-the-world Doomsday threat you may not have heard of. It is far more subtle. It is also slower acting, meaning it would unfold over the course of years. But it has the potential to be just as catastrophic. This threat is called Melting Permafrost. Let's take a look.
If you are reading this article and you live in the United States, chances are that you are overweight or obese. The obesity numbers are especially worrying, because they keep rising in the United States and today about 40% of adults are obese. Are drugs the solution?
Many people aren’t even sure what the term “woke” means. So it begs the question of each of us: “Am I woke or anti-woke? Where do I stand on wokeness, and why?”