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This is one can I'm OK with kicking down the road :-) (I'm joking; the article is interesting, and I'm not trying to frame it as trying to portray this as an u
by gspr 6y ago
This is one can I'm OK with kicking down the road :-)
(I'm joking; the article is interesting, and I'm not trying to frame it as trying to portray this as an urgent threat)
- tzs 6y agoDefinitely a kick it down the road problem. It's one of a whole class of problems that (1) we will have to solve or we will go extinct, but (2) are completely and utterly pointless to actually try to solve now because they are so far beyond our level. When some far future people finally have the ability to seriously start working on one of these problems, they will have techniques and knowledge so far ahead of us that anything our best and brightest could do in a lifetime's work now on the problem will be something the future people can trivially do in a day. The only contribution we can make now to these problems is to just continue to improve our science and engineering in general, in the hope that if we do that for enough generations then eventually our successors will have enough accumulated knowledge to actually tackle these problems.