This was the weekend that was for AI Doomers vs Boosters
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News from The Atlantic
Just How Bad Would an AI Bubble Be?
The entire U.S. economy is being propped up by the promise of productivity gains that seem very far from materializing….when the METR team looked at the (programmers) employees’ actual work output, they found that the developers had completed tasks 20 percent slower when using AI than when working without it. The researchers were stunned. “No one expected that outcome,” Nate Rush, one of the authors of the study, told me. “We didn’t even really consider a slowdown as a possibility.” More here –>
September 7, 2025
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(Carolyn’s note: This news below is focused on how to prevent or mitigate nuclear weapons attacks. Even just one detonated in space over the USA could destroy most computers, unless they were protected with a Faraday Cage or an equivalent enclosure.)
News from Satnews
SpaceX to launch top secret Space Development Agency’s first Tranche 1 mission on Wednesday from California
…space vehicles launched during this mission will serve a part of SDA’s Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture, a new layered network of satellites in low-Earth orbit and supporting elements that will provide global military tactical communication and missile warning, indication, and tracking capabilities. More here —>
September 7, 2025
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