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.”
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.
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.
Except he’s saying that let’s just keep extracting value and ride this baby into the dirt, rather than advocating for societal change.
So, we can’t reorganize our society one way, so let’s reorganize an entirely different way under AI? Right…
AI will (and already can) “solve” global warming by summarizing the solutions that we already know are effective but refuse to implement
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.
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”
Someone please escort this man to the nearest nursing home
You misspelled wood chipper.
Or air lock.
Space Billionaires ✊
A hidden device implanted on our cortex at birth should detonate when we suggest something like “We should let corporations solve global warming.”
The problem of, and the solution to, all of life’s problems.
this is exactly, and i cannot stress enough just how exactly, the plot of “Don’t look up”
I remember enjoying the movie and being angry at all the critics saying how they couldn’t enjoy it because it was “too on the nose.”
I am like “have you motherfuckers not been paying attention?”
So can we grab a few of those bronterocs and set them loose in a few board rooms?
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.
I would be overjoyed if AI solved the coordination problem that’s protecting him.
Eric and his dumbass wife Wendy need to move on. Nobody wants you meddling rich fucks around anymore.
AI is not going to come op with a solution and he knows it.
AGI: bZzt my calculations say you should stop consuming as much energy and move onto green energy generation
Rich people: no, not like that
I keep meaning to do the scroll of truth meme but it’s him and the scroll is AI and it says “stop burning fossil fuels”
Nyyeegghh!
AI: “Have you tried funding public transport and regulating the carbon industry?”
Ok, now we need to make a new AI so that AI can solve global warming but without using an existing solution that might marginally inconvenience the mega rich.
Especially since the solutions are already here, but rich people just don’t like them since it implies the loss of their power
Chat say: humans as batteries
We’re not going to hit those targets anyway… SO LET’S MAKE IT WAY FUCKING WORSE
I wonder if we’ll ever get to the place where people like this unexpectedly meet violent ends. They’ll sacrifice any number of lives for their shareholders interests.
“You see, killbots have a preset kill limit. Knowing their weakness, I sent wave after wave of my own men at them until they reached their limit and shut down.”
“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”
Jesus christ. Accelerationist technocrats are so fucking stupid, it hurts.
