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a world quickly approaching its carrying capacity, exhausting its natural resources, ruining its oceans... A great example of how a smart person, and a decent
by mynameishere 18y ago
a world quickly approaching its carrying capacity, exhausting its natural resources, ruining its oceans...
A great example of how a smart person, and a decent writer, can still drive an essay into inane irrelevancy when trying to wrap up with a snappy conclusion. No--the problems associated with agricultural runoff and AI tech are completely different, have completely different economic contexts, and should never be in the same article.
I'm surprised the last sentence wasn't "Vote for Obama!"
- ericb 18y agoYou took your smart, decent, criticism and made it inane and irrelevant with an ad hominem attack as your snappy conclusion. You related the singularity to this year's US Presidential candidates, two topics that have completely different contexts. Please tell me the irony was intentional... :-)
- ryanwaggoner 18y agoActually, the author says this in the first paragraph: "...nor do they obviate the need to address mundane matters such as war, poverty, disease, climate change, and helping Democrats win elections." So I'd say that it was a fair statement by the commenter above.
- ericb 18y agoMissed that. My mistake.
- willchang 18y agoOne of the points of the article seemed to have missed you. If the singularity is possible, there is still the question of whether humanity will go extinct first. At some point, AI researchers are going to have trouble breathing Earth's atmosphere -- or do AI researchers not breath air like the rest of us?
- DabAsteroid 18y agoAt some point, AI researchers are going to have trouble breathing Earth's atmosphere Why might that be?