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I, and many others, think you have it backwards. Huge asteroid? We know full well how to deflect an asteroid -- launch rockets, deploy thrusters or explosives
by achierius 2y ago
I, and many others, think you have it backwards.
Huge asteroid? We know full well how to deflect an asteroid -- launch rockets, deploy thrusters or explosives or &c, give it a little nudge and it'll miss the Earth by a huge margin. And better yet: everyone would be aligned on the need to do so!
AI on the other hand -- I don't think this applies. We couldn't stop nuclear proliferation -- what makes you so confident that we'd stop AI development before it was too late?
- smeeger 2y agowrong. it wouldn't take a very big asteroid (as astroids go) for the amount of inertia to go well beyond what we are capable of deflecting. its a real example. AI on the other hand could be stopped simply by stopping. we wouldnt even have to build anything.