{"id":151,"date":"2025-05-22T10:49:48","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T10:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/05\/22\/existential-threats-getting-our-priorities-straight\/"},"modified":"2025-05-22T10:49:48","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T10:49:48","slug":"existential-threats-getting-our-priorities-straight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/05\/22\/existential-threats-getting-our-priorities-straight\/","title":{"rendered":"Existential Threats: Getting Our Priorities Straight"},"content":{"rendered":"

White supremacy? Climate change? The first is nonexistent. The second minor and hardly imminent if a threat at all. Both are as irrelevant as Biden who is now of interest only as an object of political pathology. (The autopsy is well under away as you must have noticed.) Obama's third term<\/a> did not work out so well, did it?<\/span><\/p>\n

We're lucky to have made it intact through the vulnerable Biden years, but we have lost a lot of time. The Dementocrats, however, are still barking<\/a> up the wrong tree:<\/span><\/p>\n

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"In just four months, the department [Interior] has been destabilized, and there\u2019s been a stunning decline in its ability to meet its mission,\u201d she [Maine Dem Rep Marie Pingree] told Burgum. \u201cThis disregards the climate change concerns that we have.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The secretary [Doug Burgum] replied that he was concerned with a more pressing order of operations. \u201cThe existential threats that this administration is focusing on are Iran cannot get a nuclear weapon, and we can\u2019t lose the AI arms race to China,\u201d Burgum said in committee.<\/a> \u201cThat\u2019s the number one and two. If we solve those two things, then we will have plenty of time to solve any issues related to potential temperature change.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

His immediate focus, then, is on how the U.S. can boost energy production. Burgum reported that industry leaders tell him electricity demand will soon outpace supply with astronomical numbers measured not in megawatts, but gigawatts. The power needed to run one data center, he said, would be equivalent to the electricity needs of Denver times 10.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

White supremacy? Climate change? The first is nonexistent. The second minor and hardly imminent if a threat at all. Both are as irrelevant as Biden who is now of interest only as an object of political pathology. (The autopsy is well under away as you must have noticed.) Obama's third term did not work out … Continue reading “Existential Threats: Getting Our Priorities Straight”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}