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>If the tech really is dangerous then being more closed arguably is in the public's best interest, and this is certainly the reason OpenAI have previously given

>If the tech really is dangerous then being more closed arguably is in the public's best interest, and this is certainly the reason OpenAI have previously given. Tell about a technology you think but dangerous, and I'll give you fifty way to kill someone with it. Plastic bag for example, are not only potentially dangerous, they make a significant contribution to the current mass extinction of biodiversity.

lukan 3y ago
"Plastic bag for example, are not only potentially dangerous, they make a significant contribution to the current mass extinction of biodiversity." That is news to me, how exactly do they significantly contribute?
- a1o 3y ago
  Animals that eat jellyfishs eat plastic bags and die is one example
- psychoslave 3y ago
  https://theconversation.com/curious-kids-how-do-plastic-bags-harm-our-environment-and-sea-life-98859 https://theconversation.com/curious-kids-how-do-plastic-bags... https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/programs/population_and_sustainability/sustainability/references.html https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/programs/population_and_... https://www.genevaenvironmentnetwork.org/resources/updates/plastics-and-health/ https://www.genevaenvironmentnetwork.org/resources/updates/p...
  - lukan 3y ago
    I am really not a fan of plastic trash, neither in the oceans, nor the forest, nor anywhere else. But in your links I did not found hints of "a significant contribution to the current mass extinction of biodiversity." This was the most concrete, so some contribution (no news to me), but not in a significant way, like pesticides do, for example. "When turtles eat plastic, it can block their intestinal system (their guts). Therefore, they can no longer eat properly, which can kill them. The plastics in their tummy may also leak chemicals into the turtle. We don’t know whether this causes long term problems for the turtle, but it’s probably not good for them."
    - psychoslave 3y ago
      I am not sure what you are expecting exactly. I'm sure you are a skilled person able to make searches by yourself, but here are a few additional links https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/02/extinction-threat-ocean-plastic-pollution/ https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/02/extinction-threat-oce... https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jan/24/plastic-new-epoch-human-damage https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jan/24/plastic-... https://www.britannica.com/explore/savingearth/plastic-bags-and-animals-making-the-wild-safe-for-wildlife https://www.britannica.com/explore/savingearth/plastic-bags-... https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/100-million-marine-animals-die-every-year-from-eating-neil-mccabe/ https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/100-million-marine-animals-di... https://www.theodysseyonline.com/feellike-plastic-bag https://www.theodysseyonline.com/feellike-plastic-bag Now, this was really an incidental point, not the nub of the comment, and since this is really not the topic here, I don't mean to deeply develop it here.

lukan 3y ago

"Plastic bag for example, are not only potentially dangerous, they make a significant contribution to the current mass extinction of biodiversity." That is news to me, how exactly do they significantly contribute?

a1o 3y ago
Animals that eat jellyfishs eat plastic bags and die is one example
psychoslave 3y ago
https://theconversation.com/curious-kids-how-do-plastic-bags-harm-our-environment-and-sea-life-98859 https://theconversation.com/curious-kids-how-do-plastic-bags... https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/programs/population_and_sustainability/sustainability/references.html https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/programs/population_and_... https://www.genevaenvironmentnetwork.org/resources/updates/plastics-and-health/ https://www.genevaenvironmentnetwork.org/resources/updates/p...
- lukan 3y ago
  I am really not a fan of plastic trash, neither in the oceans, nor the forest, nor anywhere else. But in your links I did not found hints of "a significant contribution to the current mass extinction of biodiversity." This was the most concrete, so some contribution (no news to me), but not in a significant way, like pesticides do, for example. "When turtles eat plastic, it can block their intestinal system (their guts). Therefore, they can no longer eat properly, which can kill them. The plastics in their tummy may also leak chemicals into the turtle. We don’t know whether this causes long term problems for the turtle, but it’s probably not good for them."
  - psychoslave 3y ago
    I am not sure what you are expecting exactly. I'm sure you are a skilled person able to make searches by yourself, but here are a few additional links https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/02/extinction-threat-ocean-plastic-pollution/ https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/02/extinction-threat-oce... https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jan/24/plastic-new-epoch-human-damage https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jan/24/plastic-... https://www.britannica.com/explore/savingearth/plastic-bags-and-animals-making-the-wild-safe-for-wildlife https://www.britannica.com/explore/savingearth/plastic-bags-... https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/100-million-marine-animals-die-every-year-from-eating-neil-mccabe/ https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/100-million-marine-animals-di... https://www.theodysseyonline.com/feellike-plastic-bag https://www.theodysseyonline.com/feellike-plastic-bag Now, this was really an incidental point, not the nub of the comment, and since this is really not the topic here, I don't mean to deeply develop it here.