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by gruntledfangler 627 days ago
“The health check will also serve as a “mission-control center” for decision-making, per the statement, by using satellite data, A.I. and multiple scientific disciplines—as well as the wisdom of Indigenous peoples, which is something the researchers hope to incorporate more of in following editions”

Just in case you were considering taking this seriously…

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They are just looking for funding that's all.
Sounds like they’re using all available resources. What’s wrong?
Are they limiting the input to a 1% cap, then multiplying the difference from the actual model by 0.000000001?

If so it might not be too bad in practice, but it's still bad science. It's like someone today took planetary epicycles and copied them verbatim into their car physics simulator. Yeah, it probably won't be a material detriment, but why are they in there?