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I am more willing to bank on climate feedbacks we don't even know about yet doing a number on our ability to keep modern infrastructure running on a wide scale.
by CatWChainsaw 4y ago
I am more willing to bank on climate feedbacks we don't even know about yet doing a number on our ability to keep modern infrastructure running on a wide scale. It depends on regular inputs of resources of no small portion of the periodic table as well as energy sources, and I do not think nuclear/renewables can sustain today's infrastructure.
And of course, there could be nuclear war, societal breakdown as mentioned, another global plague (H5N1? Marburg? Cordyceps? Prions? The possibilities are endless), or, my favorite, Butlerian Jihad. :)
- cld8483 4y agoButlerian Jihad gives me a spark of hope. ;) A global taboo against thinking machines is probably our best bet for freedom.
- CatWChainsaw 4y agoI agree. Hopefully the zeitgeist gets to critical mass before the thinking machines do!
- _yb2s 4y agoIt does seem like we need a ban on AI progression unless we can figure out AI alignment first, which seems unlikely. Unfortunately, I do not see people taking that seriously at all until it is too late. I feel like much of the sci-fi about this was written by intelligent people that could see where this was going, but they inadvertently poisoned it culturally. "ha-ha, you mean like terminator? get real, that's just a movie."