-
Their words
The fact that we don't have swarms of drones prefabbing houses in the relatively benign atmosphere of our planet should be evidence that maybe these claims aren't quite matched with reality.
Related posts
Bill McKibben Newsletter
The the words it uses that this site has seen least often elsewhere. Posts are matched on those words alone — nothing here is a summary of this one.
Top people
Showing Profile →
Hiding
Hiding
20 September
18 September
17 September
16 September
9 September
7 September
-
Their words
Every piece of software is now at major risk, Linux included. But Linux has the collective investment of everyone on the planet throwing tokens at it.
6 September
29 August
-
korrents.com
Global warming is destabilizing mountain glaciers, making catastrophic glacial-lake outburst floods more frequent.Their words
As the planet warms, the entire region's frozen mountain slopes are becoming less stable, making glacier collapses-and the catastrophic floods they can unleash-far more likely.
26 August
-
korrents.com
Creating life with another human you love is the peak experience of being on the planet.Their words
I'm excited about a lot of things. I love building things, and I love hobbies, and I love all sorts of stuff. But creating life with another human that you love is literally the peak experience of being on the planet.
25 August
-
Their words
We have made it hot enough on this planet that things are going very wrong.
-
korrents.com
People generally underestimate serious natural threats such as pandemics and climate change.Their words
Of course that's true for the rest of the planet, but somehow we don't take natural threats seriously, whether from plagues or climate change.
16 August
-
Readrcmnd.app
Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful IdeasTheir words
The only regret I have is not reading this book 5 years earlier. Also, not every single teacher on the planet did read this — what a shame.
15 August
29 July
-
korrents.com
Cooling or warming global temperature by around 10°F would produce an unrecognizably different planet.Their words
If you cool the Earth by 10 degrees Fahrenheit, you end up with a completely different planet.
22 July
-
Their words
A record set during an ecological disaster in one part of the country is not evidence that the whole country, much less the planet, was hotter.
21 July
11 July
30 June
-
Their words
To meet the global population’s protein needs through factory-produced bacterial protein in 2024 would have used more than the total global electricity generated using renewable (hydro, photovoltaic and wind) energy
9 June
-
Their words
One, you're surrounding yourself by failing states. You can look at Russia and China and they're surrounded by some of the most dysfunctional places on the planet and you go, "Gee whiz, are they unlucky or they complicit?"
31 May
-
Mixed onrcmnd.app
EisenhornTheir words
It's pretty decently adequate, as mind candy. There are places where Abnett shows flashes of real talent. (To avoid spoilers, I'll just say: The first alien planet; the opening scenes with the cranky biologist.) There are other aspects of the novels which are pretty unsatisfying.
28 May
10 May
-
Their words
corporations, organizations are the oldest form of artificial intelligence on the planet. They are an example of this emergent intelligence.
7 April
3 April
11 March
-
Their words
Intelligence brownouts will be interesting - the planet losing IQ points when frontier AI stutters.
2 March
22 February
6 February
-
korrents.com
AI datacenter growth makes performance engineering critical for saving the planet, not just cutting costs.Their words
The staggering and fast-growing cost of AI datacenters is a call for performance engineering like no other in history; it's not just about saving costs - it's about saving the planet.
26 January
13 January
5 January
4 January
-
Their words
Alex Mayyasi, Planet Money: A Guide to the Economic Forces that Shape Your Life is a useful introduction to economic concepts.
26 December 2025
-
korrents.com
Every person has a purpose in life, and each person gets to define what that purpose is.Their words
The pretty truth is that you have a purpose on this planet. The gorgeous truth is that you get to define that purpose.
27 November 2025
-
korrents.com
Widespread AI-driven performance tuning agents will meaningfully reduce global energy waste.Their words
In future there will be AI performance agents that can be run on everything, helping to save the planet by reducing energy usage.
26 November 2025
-
Lovedrcmnd.app
A House of DynamiteTheir words
A House of Dynamite. A very tough watch, but I thought this was fantastic as a tour of some of the different kinds of people who hold the fate of every single person on the planet in their hands every damn day. They’re tired, stressed, distracted, at cross-purposes with themselves, set in their ways, more celebs than leaders, and mediocre. And none of them have ever seen Dr. Strangelove? (A)
30 June 2025
-
korrents.com
Grass-fed organic beef is worse for the climate and the planet than beef finished in a feedlot.Their words
We need better beef - which means more efficient beef, not organic grass-fed beef, which is even worse for the climate and the planet than conventional feedlot-finished beef - but in the rich world we also need to eat less beef.
3 February 2025
-
Their words
Arizona is a paperweight. If Hsinchu disappeared off the face of the planet, within a year, couple years, Arizona would stop producing too.
22 December 2024
From one piece Adam Frank: Alien Civilizations and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life | Lex Fridman Podcast #455 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
-
Their words
There's the first law of thermodynamics, which is just about the different forms of energy. Then there's the second law, which is about when you use that energy, Kardashev wasn't thinking about the second law. If you get all that energy and you use it, there is waste heat. You don't get to use it all.
-
Their words
Life and the Earth co-evolve. That's what Brandon Carter didn't see is that actually, the fate of the Earth the fate of life are inextricably combined. This is really important for astrobiology, too. Life doesn't happen on a planet, it happens to a planet.
28 October 2024
Nothing matches.
What is a korrent?
A korrent is a belief a person has stated in their own words: one sentence stating the claim, backed by a quote and a source, kept at korrents.com.
Under a name here, the quoted block is what they actually said. The korrent beneath it is the claim those words support, in korrents' wording — tap it to see the record, its source, and who else holds it.
Nobody here wrote their own korrents. They are compiled from public statements, and a person can change their mind, which is recorded too.
About the English under a post
Some people here publish in a language other than English. Where they do, this site shows a machine translation beneath the post, in this typeface — the site's own, not theirs.
The post itself is never changed, moved or hidden: what is set in the serif above is exactly what the person published, and it is what to quote them on. A translation can be wrong in ways that matter, especially about tone.
Only the post's own words are translated. A quoted post, a linked article and a belief on korrents.com are left in their original language.