Jesus christ. Accelerationist technocrats are so fucking stupid, it hurts.
thats malice, not stupidity
Someone please escort this man to the nearest nursing home
You misspelled wood chipper.
Or air lock.
Space Billionaires ✊
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.
Cause everyone is trying to hang onto capitalism and the military industrial complex, supported by Wall Street
…or we’ll eat you!
It’s the bitter truth
he’s absolutely right. climate goals are not currently attainable, due to the resistance of companies like Google.
let’s change that by voting in senators that will take an aggressive stance against corruption and deliver on long-term goals that protect American interests in the next 50 years, not months…
Fuck protecting American interests.
We need to be protecting HUMAN interests. Not billionaires desires for more zeros at the end of their net worth.
I don’t disagree, but I elect my government to protect me, their citizen.
but a world government would be nice to imagine, horrible to live in though.
Sure but as far as the topic at hand goes, I have a hard time imagining a single-nation-centric solution to global climate change.
AI will not find a magic solution. Besides, we already have quite a few directions that would help, but we’re not acting on them. Pilling more “solutions” over them won’t change that.
This really sounds like the parody of rich people that think they can eat and breath safely as long as they have money, the rest of the world be damned.
It really does feel like satire, doesn’t it?
AI can’t solve shit.
Let’s unshackle him from his wealth and use that to help meet climate goals.
why do we pretend these people are human
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.
solving global warming is really simple: kill off all human beings.
i wonder how long ai algorithms will take to figure that out.
Global warming is already achieving that goal. It’s a self-regulating system.
Except it’s disproportionately killing those producing the least amount of global warming - I’ve yet to hear of a billionaire killed by global warming.
And it’s also killing the rest of the biosphere in the process. Which wasn’t doing so great to begin with.
You could do it in order of CO2 footprint, which pretty much tracks wealth. I bet if you just killed off the top 1% you’d make a huge dent.
all these private jets
If he’s talking about the AI we have in any near future, it’s not figuring anything out. But I think he’s just saying whatever he can pull out of his ass to deflect attention from how his kind are the problem.
Too bad his idea is so fantastically stupid. Under other circumstances, I might kinda like his “fuck it, do or die” attitude.
It’s so stupid it might be brilliant… nope it’s just stupid.
This is like when I have a homework assignment due Monday, it’s now Sunday night and I know it won’t get done in time. Fuck it, let’s have a party. Except I won’t be around to clean up after.
this is exactly, and i cannot stress enough just how exactly, the plot of “Don’t look up”
So can we grab a few of those bronterocs and set them loose in a few board rooms?
I remember enjoying the movie and being angry at all the critics saying how they couldn’t enjoy it because it was “too on the nose.”
I am like “have you motherfuckers not been paying attention?”
That’s one reason I haven’t watched it. Isn’t it meant to be a comedy? I’m not sure I can bear the frustration
Well, at least we know who has a gigantic amount of shares and OpenAI
My guess would be Nvidia. But probably both.
The problem is a confluence of flaws related to capitalism and psychology that allows guys like these to be as they are, gives them ample opportunity to speak, and compels others to listen.
Eric Schmidt and people like him have so much money and influence that they’re presented the opportunity to sit down with policy makers and use media as a megaphone to the point that his voice alone is louder than tens of millions of dissenters and the collective group is able to speak over the entire scientific community.
We’ve normalized it to the point that he can pitch an idea that is as existentially catastrophic as this, and the article writer spins it as some profound statement worthy of deeper discussion.
The CEO of Starbucks attempted to justify flying across state in a jet in order to commute to work, and a lot of people either accept it as some sort of tenet of capitalism or attempt to play the devil’s advocate as to why something like that would be deemed necessary by a person. And while he’s doing that, he’s not univerally lambasted for it, policy doesn’t change to prohibit that, and we just squabble amongst ourselves about the merits or necessity.
But as long as guys like these continue to receive money, they and their lobbyists will be chanting the same mantra
