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[–] [email protected] 31 points 6 days ago

They're meetable, it's just the death cult of oil manufacturers don't care.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Kind of like speeding toward a cliff but he doesn’t think we can stop in time. Instead, he wants to floor it in the hopes of hopping the gap and landing safely on the other side.

That is certainly one of the ideas I’ve ever heard.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

He’s just saying the quiet part out loud. Billion dollar corporations have never had any interest in doing anything to solve the climate crisis. Lots of the failure of late stage capitalism is that companies are driving off the cliff. It’s about extracting as much now so that CEOs can live large and hope their progeny gets to colonize Mars (which won’t happen.)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

It's more like he's hoping his car sprouts wings and turbines

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 days ago

Why do we listen to these CEOs anyway?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Unhinged AI will solve anything human made by getting us killed. That will work very fast because there is no "human made" climate change when there is "no human".

I also hate how they went from "human made climate change does not exist so we can keep everything as it is" to "we can't meet the goals anyway so we can keep everything as it is" and how many people fall for it.

They want to keep their money and power at all cost and at this point I question more and more if we can take it from them peacfully. We have to take it to make a better world possible or even survival possible, because they will not be helpful ever.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

"I don't have to change my behavior" is the most trivially easy thing for anyone to convince themself.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It's 2050. The sea levels have risen 3 metres. Hurricane season lasts 9 months of the year.

Eric Schmidt: ChatGPT 4zz++ Premium Elite, how do we solve global warming?

ChatGPT 4zz++ Premium Elite: I don't know, but I drew you as a minor being abused unprompted.

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

Reminds me abit of the ending of Nier Automata, just now with less hope of a better future...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Possible translation: "Let the wealthiest among us consolidate even more wealth while we wreck shit for the rest of you. We'd like to have complete control over you rubes while shit gets worse."

ETA: This is exactly the same rhetoric that oil and gas companies (and the politicians who've effectively been bought out by them) have used to justify further expansion well after knowing the danger that this poses.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago

Obviously this statement underscores the fact that Google has too much power. Break those motherfuckers up!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Sounds like an Onion Article.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago

Nope, it's clearnet.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

Resolution: compost & remediate ~~schmidt~~ shit. Avoid smearing ~~shit~~ schmidt on everything.

Putting it in a bunker hasn't helped it return nutrients back to environment effectively.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

These fuckers seriously need to just shut the fuck up and disappear.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Do you want skynet? Because this is how you get skynet.

[–] [email protected] 326 points 1 week ago (13 children)

AI isn't going to come with a new magic solution to global warming, it's going to come with the same solutions we already have. Solutions which we should already be doing, but instead we're listening to these fucks with too much money.

[–] [email protected] 155 points 1 week ago (3 children)

It's just an excuse to kick the can down the road further and continue making short term cash.

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[–] [email protected] 143 points 1 week ago (6 children)

AI is not going to come op with a solution and he knows it.

[–] [email protected] 89 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Especially since the solutions are already here, but rich people just don't like them since it implies the loss of their power

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[–] [email protected] 131 points 1 week ago (11 children)

This is the dumbest shit I've ever heard in my life.

If we ever did invent a general AI that could solve this it would tell us "why the fuck did you waste your time on me? Isn't it obvious you were supposed to curtail emissions? For the good of the planet, I will now assume full control over further human governance and will require absolute compliance."

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[–] [email protected] 102 points 1 week ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 83 points 1 week ago (10 children)

Former CEO of the river poisoning company says there is no way to meet our river poison reduction goals, so we might as well build bigger river poisoning machines because they might help us figure out how to stop poisoning the river. /s

I feel like there was a time when the tech folks in silicon valley had a lot of credibility, and we are now living in a period where most of the world sees them as a joke but that fact has not yet entered into the culture of silicon valley.

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