Ol Olsoc:

There's no (human) 'we' that have been through this kind of rapid climate change.
There's no indication that the global warming is part of a cycle (will it end, and repeat? If so, why?)

No serious effort against climate change should be ignored.
Hand-wringing isn't a serious effort, which Ol Olsoc ought to ignore, but hasn't.

Oh, there certainly ARE exponential solutions; an RC circuit, for instance,
exponentially increases the reciprocal voltage on the capacitor during discharge.

Oscillators too are exponential, in the complex-number
sense; my alarm clock has been doing exp(i * theta) for decades now.

Conservation laws mean growing-mass or growing-energy have to have limits,
but that's just a special-case selection.

Math has prehistoric sources; it spans cultures, and outlives languages,
and spawns severe nomenclature problems. AI can make any mistake it thinks
fits the 'mold', and probably will. Soon.

The problem of teaching and communicating mathematics won't be solved by AI. At its best,
it'll identify contradictions. At its worst, it'll produce contradictions.

No 'cyber operation' authorization by a court is mentioned, however. Unless these operations are devoid of 'search' capabiity, the authorization of a court of law, including specific disclosure of the nature of the data being probed, is required by the Constitution.

One (not very practical) Zip design used a twenty-five pin connector
with a two-ended cable that had different colors; you plug
one end into the Zip and the other into SCSI (Macintosh style,
25-pin connector to thirty-something wire cable). Or, if you had a PC with parallel port,
you reversed the cable and the Zip worked as a parallel port peripheral.

And, the two-color-code cables were rare and 'nonstandard' enough to be often
confused either with SCSI or parallel, and sometimes with modem, cables.

Long distance ocean shipping (weight-is-no-object) would use
intercalation (a saturated solution of hydrogen in a charcoal-like solid).
Neither liquid nor compressed gas can match intercalation for volumetric efficiency.
It's safer than compressed, as well as lower-storage-cost than refrigerated liquid.

Compressed gas is a no-no for flight safety
reasons: you can't depend on soft landings.

Oh, the department will be the other end, the butt... of the joke.

Regulations have to be readable by affected persons and organizations,
by judges/juries, and not be easily warped by lawyers.
The additional constraint that they have to make sense to an AI,
is... not likely to produce a quality product by those criteria.

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It's unlikely that good correspondence with 'the will of the people' will result
from this kind of intermediate step in the democratic process.

Sonic "Intramodulation distortion" does NOT stress brain tissue. Sonics aren't what is being discussed here, but radio. It's just not possible to transmit enough sonic energy through atmosphere to get into a skull. Delicate imaging with safe ultrasound levels requires good solid transducer coupling or the skull just... stops it cold. Solids can transmit very loud sounds. So can liquids. Air, not so much (and it'd hurt your ears, not the grey matter of your brain).

The '3%' failure rate is quite a success in preventing an epidemic. The epidemic
must GROW its infected base by more persons, as old cases return to
uninfected life-as-usual. That 97% inoculated-and-immune sea of people are
the potential next victims that NEVER contract and pass on the disease to others,

Similarly, one might prevent forest fires by having 97% of your trees
fireproofed. It's unlikely a fire will hop to the next tree when
most of the neighbors don't burn.

In short, a crowd of folk with 97% immune would result in an
exponential decay of cases after any initial burst, rather than a rise.
Health officials certainly are aware of this.

We all should be aware of this.

Vaccination is a preparatory exercise for 'human immune systems', so that those systems aren't learning while working, but rather learning beforehand, It's not interference, it's education. It fights better when it knows the enemy before first contact.

The observation is a weak one, correlating the release of gas
with the ship passage (presumably creating pressure waves that disturb the muck).

Would natural (tidal, volcanic, storm-caused) disturbances release
less methane, or more, or the same amount, in the absence of shipping?

There's no clear benefit to that fix.

Yeah, the headline 'no safe amount' reference is a clue. It's unlikely
anyone can identify 'safe amount' subjects. The headline term 'new research'
doesn't hold water either, this was a review of many old studies.

Correlation can mean that health issues cause diet, or diet causes health issues.
Neither is unlikely.

I just ran across How to Lie with Statistics the other day.
My hardback is first edition, 1954.
Maybe we should pay the copyright holder and train AIs on that text?

Yeah, that's the ticket. It takes a programming background to do the edit,
and typing skill makes the job easier.

Since a typing course is only gonna cost an hour a day for a few weeks, it's well worth
it for a long lifetime of easy access to the written word.

What's really old, is the knowledge that the Earth's core is hot. The crust has
a known thermal gradient, and is moving that heat at conduction-through-dirt rates
consistent with that gradient. You'd have to run a heat engine to bypass a LOT
of vertical distance, in the downward direction, to tap that.

And, as you tap it, the bottom of your heat engine gets cold. That means
it's not sustainable, unless you find a magma flow and tap the heat of a river of molten rock.

The sustainable 'amount of energy' (really, power) you can get from the planet in
this way is about 1/16 watt per square meter. Mile-deep holes are more
expensive than solar cells, and sunlight is delivering 'way more energy than that anyhow.

Good grief! To patent is to PUBLISH a description that allows replication
by an artisan of the invention. There's very little software
nowadays that could be contained, inclusive of the user interface,
the memory model, the subroutine libraries, and the output functions, in any
reasonable amount of patent office deposited paper.

Folk doing agile app development rarely envision a blueprint for their work,
it's just too much time to spend on a document
(that's why we see so many bugs).

Any attempt to fight in court on a software patent would be won by
whichever legal team has the most staying power,
and could easily drag on like the old SCO/IBM fiasco of 2003-2016...