Resources, Env. + Bio. Engr.
The Greenhouse Gas effect is...
What is the process by which emitted CO2 traps heat and leads to global warming?
Moore's Law is...
What is the prediction/fact that the number of transistors on a chip doubles every 24 months?
The difference between misinformation and disinformation is...
What is the latter being spread with the intent to deceive?
The DoD budget in the fiscal year 2025, +/- 25 billion was...
What is $850,000,000,000?
A popular snow activity that I've sworn off
What is Skiing?
1) Dangerous, especially if you're doing too much
2) All this pressure to go out and "hit the slopes"
The required fertility rate for population stability is...
What is 2.1?
Ray Kurzweil's law of accelerating returns was...
What is the prediction/fact that computational technology improves exponentially and there's now (apparent) limit to increases in computational power?
The Megan Meier incident was?
What is when the mother of Megan's friend befriending her on MySpace by pretending to be a boy and then cruelly dropping her, leading to Megan eventually committing suicide?
The number of countries that spend the most on the military (besides the U.S.) which the U.S. outspends, combined, is...
What is 10?
My favorite NFL team
What is the Las Vegas Raiders?
In 2021, the percentage of U.S. energy consumption that was sourced by natural gas was... (+/- 3%)
What is 32%?
"Simulation [word] [word]" -Professor Weltman...
What is "Simulation condenses experience"?
The demographic that social media is most harmful to is...
What is teen girls?
The calibrated capability trust is... and it lies between...
What is avoiding too much or too little trust in technology, overtrust = misuse & distrust = disuse?
The reason I applied to law school this cycle
Engineering Failure
A potential solution, at least partially, for global warming that circumvents some nations' refusal to reduce emissions is...
What is carbon capture?
ELIZA was...
What is an early software simulation of a Rogerian psychotherapist?
The thing that is going to be the main determinant of power, influence, and security in the 21st century is...
What is information?
Isaac Asimov's 3 Laws of Robotics (in order and including dependencies) are...
*Bonus points (arbitrary) for the 4th secret law (R. Daneel Olivan)
What is:
1) Robots must not injure humans
2) Robots must obey human orders, provided first law is obeyed
3) Robots must always protect themselves, provided first two laws are obeyedBonus: Robots must not harm humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm
The state I was born in
What is the state of Gujarat, India?
CRISPR stands for...
What is clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats?
GPT stands for and semantically means...
What is generative pretrained transformer?
Generative = autoregressive, make predictions off of previous string of words
Pretrained = trained on massive corpus of internet data
Transformer = self-attention architecture to learn how much to weigh specific words in specific spots in the prompt
The UPSTREAM and PRISM NSA programs were...
What is collecting phone communications & internet data directly from providers, respectively?
The 5 laws in the Law of Armed Conflict are...
What is:
1) Military necessities & objectives
2) Avoidance of unnecessary suffering
3) Distinction and discrimination
4) Proportionality
5) Honor
The number of siblings I have and their relation to me (ex: 1 sibling, older brother)
What is only child? Lonely...