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With global warming - a clear and present danger, the only realistic immediate and effective solution is to stop digging up fossil fuels and burning them. Howev
by somewhereoutth 3y ago
With global warming - a clear and present danger, the only realistic immediate and effective solution is to stop digging up fossil fuels and burning them. However almost all the world's economy is predicated on precisely that, so it is a big ask.
With AI - a nebulous threat based on not much more than some 21st century parlor tricks, it is quite reasonable to 'cross that bridge when we reach it' (which may be never).
- j2bax 3y ago>it is quite reasonable to 'cross that bridge when we reach it' (which may be never). Unless you are a junior copy writer... Or a midlevel photographer... Or production artist... You better cross that bridge before your next rent check is due.
- somewhereoutth 3y agoWell indeed - but copy writers and artwork creators having to up their game is hardly an extinction level event.
- tticvs 3y agoJust like weavers, farmhands, humans calculators, stenographers, scribes, etc before them.