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Unshakeable AI companies so reprehensible characters like himself can profit from unchecked societal demise more like.

His megalomania is so boundless he would sacrifice the entire planet to make money.

Typical republican: “I fucked everything up, but only I can fix it”.

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.

This is "Escalating to de-escalate" with climate change

i see a lot of naysaying in the comments and a lot of superstition.

the one thing you all got right is that it will never work in the hands of capitalists. however, that doesn't mean it wouldn't work in the hands of academia.

another thing that i think somebody in this comment section got right is the acceleration of fusion power. it's obvious that fusion power works. we just can't work out the details to make it net positive and scalable. i think those things are possible, and that we need all the help we can get to develop it.

something i don't see people mentioning is how an AI properly trained on human behavior could lead us down a path of sustainability without making us feel like we were forced to. with the right carrots and sticks, you can lead humanity to water and make it drink.

but none of this is possible without abandoning capitalism and unifying the world. we have to move away from nation states and fiat currency. and guess who are the people that stubbornly cling on to these concepts across cultures? conservatives and the religious - these are the two most cancerous concepts in the human species. roughly half of the human population across all cultures are backwards minded people clinging on to outdated concepts and unwilling to let go of the idea.

if you can figure out how to eliminate conservatism and religion, utopia is within reach.

"The goals humans made to save the Earth are too hard to reach while resisting any change related to those goals, so we should just get rid of them and let the planet become unhabitable"

Too bad his idea is so fantastically stupid. Under other circumstances, I might kinda like his “fuck it, do or die” attitude.

All that extra processing power for the AI to just say: "you should have listened to the scientists years ago".

Isn't this a fairly standard sci-fi plot?

AI: Kill humans off, problem solved.

Let's unshackle him from his wealth and use that to help meet climate goals.

AKA, "let the poors die while I hide out in my bunker, and emerge as a feudal lord among the survivors nearby"

I've seen this before somewhere... I think it was a old video game called Horizon Zero Dawn?

I wish someone could provide evidence that this would actually lead somewhere. The problem is even if AI isn't a white whale and actually does achieve the goals that the AI companies are telling us it will achieve. That still leaves us hoping that the AI can actually fix the problem quickly enough that the extra power that we required in order to create it, doesn't cancel out any benefit it can create.

I've yet to see anyone provide any evidence to suggest that this will necessarily be the case.

Also given the fact that AI companies are taking over nuclear power stations I'm not seeing much evidence of shackling going on.

AI can’t solve shit.

The solution to global warming is "deploy solar, wind, hydro, and storage en masse, and improve city infrastructure so that more people can walk, bike, and take public transportation rather than using their car". All AI will do is tell us that, but that's not the answer people want to hear.