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Former Google CEO says climate goals are not meetable, so we might as well drop climate conservation — unshackle AI companies so AI can solve global warming (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I mean, you and him might be saying literally the same thing.

His point was that we can't hit our climate targets because society is not organized in a way that allows us to. Everyone reorganizing around their unquestioning allegiance to an AI overlord would change that though.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Except he's saying that let's just keep extracting value and ride this baby into the dirt, rather than advocating for societal change.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

So, we can't reorganize our society one way, so let's reorganize an entirely different way under AI? Right...