LLNS may have excluded the wrong people in last VSSOP? The exclusions were based on outdated job categories and related skills. ULM are now thinking that in the future, job categories and functional areas will have to be re-defined. The next VSSOP/ISP will be based on the new categories and functional areas. The questions I have are: 1) Why didnt they think of that before the transition. It seems like their style is “change things as you go”. Planning is out the window! 2) Who will give input on the new changes? The next RIF apparently is going to be more lucrative than the VSSOP. Depending on the length of employment, a RIFed person, not only gets their 1 week pay per year of service but also from 30 to 120 days notice, essentially 30 to 120 days pay. Please feel free to comment on the rumors or add new ones you actually heard.
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It was also pointed out, on a hopeful note, that most good physicists believe in the many worlds theory, and some of these worlds would dodge the problem, and that many Americans believe in a so-called "rapture" prior to anything bad happening.
Furthermore, of course, Americans have a deep dislike for various authoritarian forms of governance hence the statement "better dead than red". This indicates a possible utility of a so-called doomsday device in case of a communist takeover.
At the same time, of course, global governance of an intrusive nature may be necessary in the future to prevent the development of dangerous technologies such as this.
No, they don't.
Also is the 7.04 AM a bot? Is it possible that a bunch of postings on blogs, Reddit, and Facebook are not not from real people. For about a year or so, I keep seeing posts like 7.04 AM that seem to be off. Weird.
https://purl.stanford.edu/cv716pj4036
It does mention some of the hypothetical ideas previously discussed on this blog, for example, an overgrowth of cyanobacteria taking CO2 out of the atmosphere so that there is a global ice age, other species in the oceans could die out, and similar to the blight in interstellar ordinary plants would not be able to grow. See section 8.5, which claims the full extent of this is uncertain but can't be ruled out.