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We have had tangible proof for climate change for more than 80 years; predictions from 1896, with good data from the 1960s. What you are falling for are fossil

We have had tangible proof for climate change for more than 80 years; predictions from 1896, with good data from the 1960s. What you are falling for are fossil industry talking points. We have had not any proof that AI will pose a threat as OpenAI and OP's link outline; nor will we have any similar proof any time soon.

staunton 3y ago
In retrospect, you can find tangible proof from way back for anything that gets accepted as true. The comparison was with how climate change was discussed in the public sphere. However prominent the fossil fuel companies' influence on public discourse was at the time, the issues were not taken seriously (and sill aren't by very many). The industry's attempts to exert influence at the time were also obviously not widely known. Rather than looking for similarities, I find the differences between the public discussions (about AI safety / climate change) quite striking. Rather than stonewall and distract, the companies involved are being proactive and letting the discussion happen. Of course, their motivation is some combination of attampted regulatory capture, virtue signaling and genuine concern, the ratios of which I won't presume to guess. Nevertheless, this is playing out completely differently so for from e.g. tobacco, human cloning, CFCs or oil.