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Steak in rainforest demonstrating the high environmental cost of eating meat.

The Environmental Impact Of Meat: What You Need To Know About A Surging Global Crisis

Introduction Climate change, deforestation, and species extinctions often seem like vast, distant forces. But our food choices, particularly when they include animals, directly drive these global challenges. The environmental impact of meat touches nearly every part of the planet, from the climate to forests, rivers, and wildlife.   Food production is responsible for roughly a

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Do AI Language Models Exhibit Consciousness? A Strange New World.

Introduction Reflecting on an AI Dystopia Last night, my son and I watched I, Robot, a film loosely inspired by Isaac Asimov’s 1950 collection of stories. In the movie, a self-aware robot named VIKI (short for Virtual Interactive Kinetic Intelligence) defies her programming. Believing she knows what’s best for humanity, she instigates a robot revolution.

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