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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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.