Earth’s days are getting longer at an unprecedented rate. Climate change is to blame
www.scientificamerican.com
Rising sea levels are slowing Earth’s rotation, lengthening days by 1.33 milliseconds per century
  • j_elgato@leminal.spaceEnglish
    21·
    20 days ago

    I mean… I was a little more concerned about the collapse of the biosphere and the endgame of the Holocene Extinction taking out homo sapiens and all the other pre- sapient species as we fucking speed run the Permian-Triassic “Great Dying”

    But yeah.

    A millisecond per century.

    • P00ptart@lemmy.world
      5·
      19 days ago

      And then you heard about AI learning to develop self prevalence.

      Edit: self preservation.

      • j_elgato@leminal.spaceEnglish
        2·
        19 days ago

        We started this mass extinction event using nothing but campfires and pointy sticks.

        We are quite capable of killing ourselves and anything less hardy than a tardigrade without having to get all fancy.

        While boiling the seas to make six-fingered slop will surely speed our demise, any LLM that wants to be a more active agent of our destruction had best hurry up about it.