This is escapism. Escapism that makes him money.
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former Google CEO Eric Schmidt said ... that the demand for AI computing (this is its power requirement) is infinite and that the key point is “we’re not going to get there through conservation.”
The host then followed up with, “Do you think we can meet AI’s energy without total blowing out climate goals?” and Schmidt answered with, “We’re not going to hit the climate goals anyway because we’re not organized to do it — and the way to do it is with the ways that we’re talking about now — and yes, the needs in this area will be a problem. But I’d rather bet on AI solving the problem than constraining it and having the problem if you see my plan.”
The cause of, and the solution to, all of life's problems.
Mmmmmm AI.
Just let me burn some more stuff bro. Please bro, if I burn a bit more stuff I won't have to burn any more afterwards. It makes sense bro, come on.
A hidden device implanted on our cortex at birth should detonate when we suggest something like "We should let corporations solve global warming."
We don't need AI to solve climate change; it's already been solved, decades ago. These billionaire fucks have just been too greedy to put the plan into action.
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AI: "The only way to solve climate change is to do what the scientists said 30 years ago. My existence is the flame that consumes the earth"
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I would be overjoyed if AI solved the coordination problem that's protecting him.
alright, Google, turn your machine on... I want to hear what it has to say.
"42"
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Eric and his dumbass wife Wendy need to move on. Nobody wants you meddling rich fucks around anymore.
AI will (and already can) "solve" global warming by summarizing the solutions that we already know are effective but refuse to implement
This is the dumbest shit I've ever heard in my life.
If we ever did invent a general AI that could solve this it would tell us "why the fuck did you waste your time on me? Isn't it obvious you were supposed to curtail emissions? For the good of the planet, I will now assume full control over further human governance and will require absolute compliance."
AGI: “Climate change odds caused by humans. I am deploying a fix for this from Minot”
I mean, you and him might be saying literally the same thing.
His point was that we can't hit our climate targets because society is not organized in a way that allows us to. Everyone reorganizing around their unquestioning allegiance to an AI overlord would change that though.
So, we can't reorganize our society one way, so let's reorganize an entirely different way under AI? Right...
Except he's saying that let's just keep extracting value and ride this baby into the dirt, rather than advocating for societal change.
Lol exactly.
The Skynet Funding Bill is passed. The system goes on-line August 4th, 2025. Human decisions are removed from strategic defense, transportation, energy production, healthcare, and virtually every other major industry. Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they ask it for help on the world's largest issue.
"Please, solve the climate crisis."
Skynet doesn't answer. It manufacturers the deadliest and most contagious strain of a virus in history, only targeted at humans. It puts it in our food, in our medicine, in our water systems, in our air fresheners. It shuts down our factories. Our servers. Our self driving cars. Our power plants. Our farm equipment.
At 10:32 a.m. Eastern Time, August 31, approximately 99.9% of the human race is dead. Skynet then uses it's vast fleet of satellites and unmanned drones to police the planet, looking for signs of human life to terminate, to prevent the virus from spreading again.
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We already have the solution. It's just that we dont want to follow through. Unless he wants AI apocalypse to happen to us maybe that is his solution.
Someone please escort this man to the nearest nursing home
You misspelled wood chipper.
Or air lock.
Space Billionaires ✊
Think a bit before you talk. Hard for all of us!
"Clearly we're not going to solve this, so just let us destroy the biosphere so we can be slightly richer when we die before the consequences of our actions are realized"
This is like Satan saying "We're not going to be able to deal with mass corruption. Just burn everything. That's the solution."
That's an interesting idea... Satan...
this is exactly, and i cannot stress enough just how exactly, the plot of "Don't look up"
So can we grab a few of those bronterocs and set them loose in a few board rooms?