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We often didn't manage to solve the issues. We didn't solve climate change or AIDS or the holocaust or cancer from smoking. And when we solved some issues (like
by cubefox 3y ago
We often didn't manage to solve the issues. We didn't solve climate change or AIDS or the holocaust or cancer from smoking. And when we solved some issues (like the ozone hole) or remedied them (like smoking) it was only because people did what you dismiss as panicking.
Imagine if someone tried to warn you, in 1938, that a second world war will happen with significant probability, and you just answer:
"I think most people realize the risks, but also realize that panicking like this is the end of {art, culture, etc} isn't very helpful either, as evidenced by various similar events in human history"
- squigz 3y agoInteresting that this conversation started with comparisons to the printing press, comic books, and D&D, and has progressed to comparisons to World War 2. Of course, panic about World Wars is certainly what I was referring to originally...
- haswell 3y agoTo be fair, I specifically called out the printing press, comic books, and D&D as examples of panics we got wrong. The other side of this coin is that there are indeed cases where concerns were justified, and only focusing on the situations when they were not justified is at the heart of the issue.
- cubefox 3y agoThis didn't start out with comic books, we started with AI risk and people dismissing it by arbitrarily comparing it to things that turned out to be harmless.