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    What solution is AI going to come up with other than “stop burning fossil fuels”? We already know the solution to climate change. Acting like we don’t is absurd.

    I think a good first step in meeting climate goals would be eating Eric Schmidt.

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          Wealth inequality is a huge problem that needs to be addressed. And so is reducing complex systemic issues to catchy reductive memes.

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            Rich coming from someone who says we should, just, continue burning fossil fuels because it’s been hard to stop. If you want a serious discussion, offer serious solutions.

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              You know I didn’t say that, but the sad part is I do believe you think the world is a simple dichotomy of rich vs poor.

              Oh well, I’ll take it over the other false dichotomies. I like your energy kid, but you’re going to have to get smarter if you want to see change in the world, for all of our sakes. Your current strategy ain’t gonna cut it.

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      It can only be hoping for some alien technology that we haven’t found out with modern research will be discovered. Like an extreme version of carbon recapture that hasn’t been thought of.

      Except somehow derived from literature, images, and the internet as points of data.

      How? Well, I’m sure the AI will tell us… right?

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    “Yes, the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders!”

    • Eric Schmidt, probably
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    If we wait for AI to be advanced enough to solve the problem and don’t do anything in the meantime, when the time finally comes, the AI will (then, rightfully) determine that there’s only one way to solve it…

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      Natural Intelligence has already proposed solutions. The real lie is in expecting us to believe that decision makers would be any more likely to act on the solutions that AI comes up with.

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        That’s exactly right. Even if we made an AI that could give us the perfect solution and had accurate projections to back up its assertions, inevitably we’d reject it because we wouldn’t trust it fully. It cannot fix the often selfish nature of humans

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    “I’m not hitting my goals on staying sober. I’d rather bet on my next drink to solve this problem for me.”

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    Epic Schmidt goes to his AI prompt and asks “How do we solve the climate crisis?”

    For a moment, the prompt ponders until it replies

    “Kill all the data centres. Stop trying to harvest everyone’s data”

    Epic says to himself “I guess we’ll never know!”

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    Why advocate for trying to stop climate disaster when you can choose to believe that you can both profit off of it and be the hero that saves humanity from it, both at the same time?

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    I think we should start with AI CEOs first. Watch how quickly these tech bros become AI skeptics when you suggest this.

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    Imagine someone like him acting like ‘coming up with solutions’ is the problem. Infuriating ghouls.

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    And we’ll come up with a name that merges climate and technology, let’s call it skynet.