• miz [any, any]@hexbear.net
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    1 month ago

    Eric Schmidt recently said “we can’t solve climate change so we might as well go all in on AI”. since we can’t prevent Eric Schmidt’s eventual death shouldn’t he be guillotined immediately?

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      What I hate so much about this is that even if the AI could solve the problem, it would just offer advice that has already been ignored for decades and would be ignored again. These people have wilfully destroyed the planet so that they can live like emperors. I dearly hope that there is some sort of cosmic retribution after death.

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      Eric Schmidt recently said “we can’t solve climate change so we might as well go all in on AI”

      I saw that take almost word for word from a fairweather leftist on this site.

      I fucking hate inevitabilist arguments. They’re less than useless, and if they were applied centuries ago they’d be “we can’t end slavery so may as well expand it.”