cross-posted from: https://awful.systems/post/2556883
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.
So what you’re saying is that it is indeed time to move on to eating the rich?
Wealth inequality is a huge problem that needs to be addressed. And so is reducing complex systemic issues to catchy reductive memes.
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?
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!”
The schmuck doesn’t even know what AI stands for.
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…
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.
“Yes, the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders!”
- Eric Schmidt, probably
