Climate Twitter is lighting up over the “in the pipeline” article. Quick, quick, pick a side – are you a Mann-ite or a Hansen-ite? All I want to know is how soon we will know (and how) which team won. Five years should be enough, I’d guess… Not sure exactly what the metrics would be. Whether the models go boink when confronted with empirics, I guess.
Meanwhile, The Wife went on a rabbit hole expedition about AI and came downstairs proclaiming that humans are dumb (scientists just waking up the fact that there may be trouble ahead).
And it inspired a rant along these lines; “say what you like about the gods/God, but at least He/She/They gave humans a sense that they were not the most important thing, the apex predator. If you take away that, add the Enlightenment and then fossil fuel extraction and use, well, it’s always going to end in tears.”
Fwiw, if we do have to bring the gods/God back into it (and yes, I know, He/She/They never really went away – most hairless apes on this planet still believe), then my vote is for the Greek gods. I think the notion that we humans are the unwitting/witless and mostly vulnerable playthings of capricious. petulant, vindictive “assholes with superpowers” is a useful way of thinking about the 21st century.
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I believe technology (AI), is and will destroy humans. Prior to technology we had to think, work (hard), just to survive, there was no time to worry about things not worth worrying about.
Now the thinking and the work is done for us, so we worry! We even create things to worry about, “one in five children will suffer mental problems”, then we have “transgenerational trauma’, if this is not enough, we have found huge rocks out there in space coming for us! I won’t go on, I’m scaring myself. that’s the trouble of having the time to think about nothing but ourselves.