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Ed Protas's avatar

Even a cursory review of human history should make us realize, in the collective, the human species is incapable of behavior that one would think of as humane. We simply cannot pull it off. And now, just as icing on the cake we have engineered our own demise. Welcome to the Anthropocene; climate change is coming for us all.

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Joy in HK fiFP's avatar

It is indeed coming, but only if we figure out how to last that long. In the short term, we have some other, pressing annihilation-inducing problems to contend with, including wars of western choice with nuclear disaster as one of the quite possible outcomes. AI, or what passes for it, has the potential to be extremely destabilizing, and destructive, regardless of whether the search for Eldorado (AGI) is even remotely possible. The Sixth Extinction, species, habitat, and diversity loss, of which we are already well on our way towards.

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