> Thinking of this as a ten or fifty thousand year problem expresses a tremendous pessimism in the human ability to innovate. It’s quite fatalistic. The argume

> Thinking of this as a ten or fifty thousand year problem expresses a tremendous pessimism in the human ability to innovate. It’s quite fatalistic. The arguments are usually about protecting some future Stone Age human society from it. Seems like the assumption is civilization will crumble and human intelligence will decline so much that they wouldn’t be able to figure out or notice that some ancient waste they dug up is killing them.