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    2 days ago

    Baudrillard is spinning in his grave.

    Burn the world to make a map to save the world from burning.

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      1 day ago

      What if a bunch of quantum computers could do it all?

      I guess the most complicated parts are going to be the ocean and the plate tectonic movements except for what’s visible on earth surface: as usual, whatever is not clearly visible…

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        21 hours ago

        And the climate, and the actions of the 8 billion humans and all their machines that destroy the climate… the economy, wars, etc…

        And then there’s the recursion problem:

        Can it simulate it simulating itself? How much energy that’ll take?

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          9 hours ago

          A lot can already be done with current satellites data. A lot is already being done actually, but just for war control/attacks or for climate predictions purposes only, probably