• Bookmeat@lemmy.world
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    24 days ago

    The problem with repairing the earth’s climate isn’t that we don’t know what to do. It’s that humans refuse to organize themselves in a way that achieves that goal. AI won’t fix that.

    • spidermanchild@sh.itjust.works
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      24 days ago

      Unless the plan is something more like Terminator. If you “unshackle” AI and give them a mandate to get CO2 back to 250 ppm things are going to get real.

      • Zink@programming.dev
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        You know that thing where reality is so ridiculous that people would reject the same stuff in works of fiction?

        Yeah it bothers me that you said that, lol.

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      A few bad actors can undo the work of thousands of hardworking people who care. I genuinely don’t know if the problem is solvable if it requires cooperation of the entire species. Some men just want to watch the world burn.

      • AA5B@lemmy.world
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        A few bad actors l, like Schmidt, have been delaying the work of thousands of hardworking people who care. This has continued for decades, making a once solvable problem almost intractable. Further delay is the worst possible choice