Actual post from Dec. 15 from one of the streams. This is a real topic. As far as promoting women and minorities even if their qualifications are not as good as the white male scientists, I am all for it. We need diversity at the lab and if that is what it takes, so be it. Quit your whining. Look around the lab, what do you see? White male geezers. How many African Americans do you see at the lab? Virtually none. LLNL is one of the MOST undiverse places you will see. Face it folks, LLNL is an institution of white male privilege and they don't want to give up their privileged positions. California, a state of majority Hispanics has the "crown jewel" LLNL nestled in the middle of it with very FEW Hispanics at all!
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For example check out this video which says AI may kill everyone in the next few years --- they cite someone who gives it a 70% chance I think:
https://youtu.be/8kBd0CM5tuA?si=j9Mr-Pyc1uNBfHrx
The Chinese are advancing older technology more than we are -- low cost silicon solar cells for example, mass production of steel and concrete, coal power plants, use of cheap labor rather than automation.
The existence of such a doomsday device might be highly demoralizing to the Chinese communists, and indeed they might be easier to deal with, although we would have to guard against them building their own doomsday device to cause human extinction so as to enact a similar plan -- we would have to set off our own device at the first sign or suspicion of this!