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"People have been saying computers will start to speak since the Dartmouth Workshop in 1956. Here we are 50 years later in 2006 and there's no sign of progress

"People have been saying computers will start to speak since the Dartmouth Workshop in 1956. Here we are 50 years later in 2006 and there's no sign of progress yet! Nothing's happened. You really need to knock if off with the predictions."

quotemstr 8mo ago
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- jbotz 8mo ago
  > Has the climate collapsed? There are still glaciers in Glacier Nation Park. The Maldives remain islands, not seamounts. Just to really quickly call out these tired old straw-men... all of these "predicted disasters" are far further along today than they were predicted to be by this date by, for example, the IPCC in 1990[0]. Deniers keep acting as if it scientists have been "crying wolf" for decades when the truth is that the 99% of the scientists doing real work on anthropogenic global warming have always been extremely conservative and reality has outpaced their predictions all along. [0] https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar1/wg2/ https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar1/wg2/
- tokai 8mo ago
  The glaciers in Glacier Nation Park have reduced by 39% the last 50 years. There used to be 150 glaciers larger than 25 acres, now there is 26. Maybe not the best example. https://www.usgs.gov/news/national-news-release/glaciers-rapidly-shrinking-and-disappearing-50-years-glacier-change https://www.usgs.gov/news/national-news-release/glaciers-rap...
- fc417fc802 8mo ago
  > Except that computers did, in fact, learn to speak. But prior to it happening it was just a long term prediction that had kept not happening for the longest time. > Has the climate collapsed? There's an awful lot of room between "business as usual" and "total collapse". Must we wait until after bad things have happened to only then discuss what we might have done about them in hindsight? Surely proactively avoiding problems is better?

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"People have been saying computers will start to speak since the Dartmouth Workshop in 1956. Here we are 50 years later in 2006 and there's no sign of progress

by sebmellen 8mo ago

quotemstr 8mo ago
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- jbotz 8mo ago
  > Has the climate collapsed? There are still glaciers in Glacier Nation Park. The Maldives remain islands, not seamounts. Just to really quickly call out these tired old straw-men... all of these "predicted disasters" are far further along today than they were predicted to be by this date by, for example, the IPCC in 1990[0]. Deniers keep acting as if it scientists have been "crying wolf" for decades when the truth is that the 99% of the scientists doing real work on anthropogenic global warming have always been extremely conservative and reality has outpaced their predictions all along. [0] https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar1/wg2/ https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar1/wg2/
- tokai 8mo ago
  The glaciers in Glacier Nation Park have reduced by 39% the last 50 years. There used to be 150 glaciers larger than 25 acres, now there is 26. Maybe not the best example. https://www.usgs.gov/news/national-news-release/glaciers-rapidly-shrinking-and-disappearing-50-years-glacier-change https://www.usgs.gov/news/national-news-release/glaciers-rap...
- fc417fc802 8mo ago
  > Except that computers did, in fact, learn to speak. But prior to it happening it was just a long term prediction that had kept not happening for the longest time. > Has the climate collapsed? There's an awful lot of room between "business as usual" and "total collapse". Must we wait until after bad things have happened to only then discuss what we might have done about them in hindsight? Surely proactively avoiding problems is better?