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Introduction Yes, you read that correctly. Not the Greenhouse Effect – the Green Plate Effect.The Green Plate Effect is an analogy to the Greenhouse Effect, introduced by blogger Eli Rabett back in 2017. He begins his post with the following paragraph:

The more states follow Florida's example, the better off the country will be: Public money is funding teachers who believe speaking English is racist, per ex Penn State prof Zack De Piero.

Creating fuel from air is technically feasible but economically inefficient, as the energy required to extract the carbon and hydrogen components surpasses the energy gained from the fuel produced.

The pact with the devil, is death. And we all have to cross it. Sometimes it feels like we are all moving toward this entropy at an increasing rate.

Much of who we consider ourselves to be in the moment, how we evaluate things and make decisions, how to decide what we can or cannot do, is based on our memory of similar circumstances in the past.

Unguided natural processes, according to the generalized Second Law, cannot systematically increase the information content of a closed system over time.

Every few years, a company announces that it is attempting to commercialize the production of fuel from air and water. Heres why it never pans out.

While in the history of the world there have surely been a few unlucky cows shoved to their side by boozed-up morons, we feel confident in saying this

Readers may be taken by surprise to learn that similar attempts were made in some school boards in the USA almost a quarter century back, that is at the beginning of this century.

Bad aspects of the AI revolution, such as disinformation, are insignificant next to the ugly potential that AIs could become a threat to humanity