Technology

"I love life on Earth... but I love capitalism more."

why do we pretend these people are human

“We can’t solve climate change by repeating our past behavior. Let’s ignore climate change and build a machine that regurgitates our past behavior.”

solving global warming is really simple: kill off all human beings.

i wonder how long ai algorithms will take to figure that out.

Someone please escort this man to the nearest nursing home

Too bad his idea is so fantastically stupid. Under other circumstances, I might kinda like his “fuck it, do or die” attitude.

This is the kind of thing that makes me support use of extra-judicial methods (at least in a temporary and limited context) against global oligarchs and senior lackeys.

The host then followed up with, “Do you think we can meet AI’s energy without total blowing out climate goals?” and Schmidt answered with, “We’re not going to hit the climate goals anyway because we’re not organized to do it — and the way to do it is with the ways that we’re talking about now — and yes, the needs in this area will be a problem. But I’d rather bet on AI solving the problem than constraining it and having the problem if you see my plan.”

This is outright malicious. How exactly would AI "solve the problem"? Later on in the article (I am not watching the propaganda video) alludes to "AI ... will make energy generation systems at least 15% more efficient or maybe even better" but he clearly just made that up on the spot. And at any rate, even if "AI" helps discover a method to make (all?) energy generation 15% more efficient that would still require trillion-dollar investments to modify current energy generation plants using the new technology.

Who is Schmidt to say that the returns of using the total spend in the above-mentioned scenario wouldn't be better used on investing into wind and solar?

To be fair, they're only not meetable because Google refuses to meet them.

Everything's impossible when you don't give a shit

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

I’ve seen this movie. It’s the one where AI determines we are the issue and initiates the “extermination” protocol.

Edit: With a dash of “Don’t Look Up”.

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.

Jesus christ. Accelerationist technocrats are so fucking stupid, it hurts.

Just let me burn some more stuff bro. Please bro, if I burn a bit more stuff I won't have to burn any more afterwards. It makes sense bro, come on.

With AI being so energy hungry, why don't we feed this rich jackass into the incineration plant. I'm sure he could power one of his beloved AIs for a minute or two.

"Fuck the climate! What about my bank account?!"

His megalomania is so boundless he would sacrifice the entire planet to make money.

name an american billionaire thats not a pos.

AI: "The only way to solve climate change is to do what the scientists said 30 years ago. My existence is the flame that consumes the earth"

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.

AI can’t solve shit.

"I know that it destroys our planet, but we shouldn't restrict my money generation machine" - person who wants infinite money

20 years later...

"It's too late now. You should've not dropped climate conservation and solved global warming without AI" - AI

"Be evil"

"The goals humans made to save the Earth are too hard to reach while resisting any change related to those goals, so we should just get rid of them and let the planet become unhabitable"

I think that if we ate the rich, we'd move closer to our goals.

We know that we have to reduce pollution and that it presents an existential threat to our children. Why are we still listening to charismatic psychopaths when it comes to matters of science and engineering? He is not remotely equipped to competently answer this question from a technical or ethical point of view.

This vulture and his ilk have had their time, step aside old man.

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.

A hidden device implanted on our cortex at birth should detonate when we suggest something like "We should let corporations solve global warming."