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RT @sapinker: I've have the same exchange many times!

A way to see the amazing history of economic growth and declining poverty over the last two centuries.

If Anthropic hadn't spread ludicrous horror stories about how dangerous and powerful Mythos/Fable is, this would never have happened. So the moral of the fable is...

Measles vaccines save millions of lives each year. Measles used to be an extremely common disease. Just sixty years ago, over 90% of children would have been infected by it, and of those who developed symptoms, around a quarter would be hospitalized. The US alone had around three to four million cases annually, leading to tens of thousands of hospitalizations and hundreds of deaths each year. However, in 1963, John Enders developed the first effective measles vaccine. Vaccination efforts ramped up rapidly in richer countries, and in the 1970s and 1980s, they were scaled up worldwide. In just the last fifty years, it’s estimated that measles vaccinations have prevented over *90 million* deaths worldwide. Two to three million people would die from measles every year without them. This means these vaccines are likely the most life-saving ones currently in use.

Optimism is not the belief that everything will be fine, but the belief that problems are SOLVABLE, combined with the willingness to actually go solve them. That thesis has built every good thing we have.

🦾 A new study measured how AI-generated text actually affects the content on the internet: They found NO evidence that AI text has led to more factual errors on the internet. The curve does in fact lean toward FEWER factual errors as AI text increases. But the correlation is not statistically significant, so the researchers’ conclusion is more cautious. They also checked five other possible negative effects of AI text. Two of them were confirmed, but three were not. Read more on Warp News .org or .se.

Good Blue Origin news.

Den efterfrågas av några av våra främsta tech- & AI-entreprenörer, som @antonosika. Jag har pratat med DI:s Tom Turula om en AI för alla-reform, med utgångspunkt från min bok, Den femte accelerationen. AI frigör mänsklig potential. AI är en ångmaskin för hjärnan. Lovable är det bolag i världen som bäst fattat just det. Så låt hela Sverige lära av det och skapa många fler Lovables och allt annat som kommer när vi mixar våra mänskliga förmåga med de artificiella. Det land som snabbast frigör sina medborgares kreativitet kommer vara det som gynnas allra mest av, när vi kliver in i AI-eran. Hem-AI-reformen, som den kallas nu i DI, lades fram av AI-kommissionen, men har hittills ignorerats av regeringen. Men nu är det ju valrörelse, så det är inte försent ännu. I en debattartikel tidigare i år efterlystes den av Joel Hellermark, Johannes Schildt, Fredrik Hjelm och Anton Osika. Politiker i alla partier får mer än gärna lyssna.

Lung cancer deaths trace the rise and fall of smoking— Lung cancer kills more than two million people every year, making it the most fatal cancer globally. While a number of factors increase the risk, the 20th century brought one like no other: smoking. There is now plenty of epidemiological evidence linking smoking to lung cancer, but we can also see it in the patterns of death over decades. The chart shows death rates from lung, trachea, and bronchus cancers among men in a selection of high-income countries. Each shows a very clear rise and fall over the late 20th century. This pattern mirrors smoking rates, with a lag. The timing and height of each peak depend on when and how strongly smoking took hold: early in the United Kingdom, later in Japan. You also see this rise and fall among women, shifted later, since they took up smoking after men did. Today, most smokers live in low- and middle-income countries, who are at different stages of this curve. Helping people quit or preventing them from starting in the first place would save many lives for decades to come. (This Data Insight was written by @_HannahRitchie.)

World's largest battery-electric container ship (127.8 m x 21.6 m; 19,600 kWh of battery storage) launched. "the most noticeable change...is the lack of noise" "the torque output of electric propulsion motors is linear and instantaneous. Acceleration and deceleration are smooth and highly responsive" "we manage to achieve zero pollution throughout the entire process of transportation, ranging from navigation and berthing to loading and unloading" chinadaily.com.cn/a/202604/1…

The latest IQ test involves data centers and water.

350,000 handwritten book records are now searchable in seconds! AI helped a university library turn 10 years of manual cataloging into structured, searchable data. Read more at @WarpInstitute : tinyurl.com/e3jxx8sp.

I can't figure out if vaccines work or not. Tough one. Need Sherlock Holmes on this one.

New post on data centers and land use, where I explain why I think we have way too much farmland

Battery-electric ferry reduced energy use 88% versus a diesel ferry during 16 months of operation in Norway, carrying 41,000 passengers per day back and forth over a river. Plus, 0 tailpipe or grid emissions from the BE ferry since Norway's grid is 100% WindWaterSolar compositesworld.com/news/hyk…

Electric vehicles are an extremely powerful tool for reducing oil demand. This is so obvious when you use the same units. There is a ton of chemical energy in the oil we burn to move cars, but you only need a small fraction in electrical energy for EVs to do the same job.

OpenAI has now cracked text in images. The news items in this image, including both headlines and intros, are pulled directly from the Warp News website.

Speakers for Progress Conference this year include the Director of @DARPA, co-CEO of @Waymo, and two Nobel Laureates Back at the beautiful Lighthaven campus in Berkeley It's going to be great! Apply for an invitation:

Dear Hollywood, tell us stories about human ingenuity, about those who dream, who build, who refuse to accept that tomorrow must be worse than today. Tell us the kind of stories that make us shout, like Rocky: Amaze, amaze, amaze! warpnews.org/premium-content…

Indeed. The history of tech impact on labor is well-documented, including by those named. It's unpredictable, but usually improves productivity and leads to expansion. Law & white-collar workers aren't horse-buggy drivers or elevator operators. They will use AI and adapt.