"Climate predictions show our hopes and fears aren't new, even if more CO2 is being released into the atmosphere than ever before" What I will say is that peop

"Climate predictions show our hopes and fears aren't new, even if more CO2 is being released into the atmosphere than ever before" What I will say is that people probably weren't wrong to be concerned previously. I wrote a comment yesterday about how ChatGPT is probably more conscious than a rock. In a similar way I'm fine saying that a computer "thinks" far more than most collections of matter we find in the universe, and I'll add that their ability to "think" seems to be increasing every year. When computers were first created there was no trend in progress to point to. We knew we could create computers that did some basic "thinking", but when would this become competitive with human ability? Only now in hindsight can we say the jump from digital computers to AGI is a significant one. But this isn't always the case – a good example being the time between the first flight to landing on the moon. It was perhaps reasonable to think the progress from digital computers to AGI could have been equally as rapid.