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Essays on climate science, artificial intelligence and the cost of the things we take for granted.
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The Heavy Cost of Small Talk: Syntactic Complexity and the Environment
A standard Google search costs about 0.3 watt-hours. Generating an AI response can cost ten times that — and politeness, filler and vague phrasing all add tokens. Self-attention scales quadratically, so every pleasantry compounds.
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4 Minutes, 4 Proofs: Why Are We Certain That Climate Change is Human-Caused?
The confidence of the scientific community rests not on one argument but on several independent lines of evidence that converge. Four fingerprints — in the atmosphere, the carbon itself, the scale, and the models.
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