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Earth’s spin is slowing at an unprecedented rate, thanks to climate change | Rising sea levels are slowing Earth’s rotation, lengthening days by 1.33 milliseconds per century (www.scientificamerican.com)
submitted 7 months ago by [M] to c/climate@slrpnk.net
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The papers are here and here. The first paper is paywalled, the second is open-access.

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[–] 22 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 child)

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

    Edit: self preservation.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months 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.

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    • [–] 10 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    1.3 milliseconds in a century doesn’t sound like a big deal.

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