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Eric Schmidt: ‘We’re not going to hit the climate goals. I’d rather bet on AI solving the problem.’ With "alien intelligence"! (pivot-to-ai.com)
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[–] HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org 21 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Aside from anything else, an "alien intelligence" will either:

  • Be immediately ignored and villianized for "not understanding humans" if they suggest any regulations or caps on superfluous waste that might have any economic impact.
  • Be the perfect proxy delivery-entity for whatever genocide-the-poor/build-Elysium/flee-to-seasteads plan the rich actually want, in which case its conclusions will be holy and $10000% perfect examples of divine insight.
[–] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'd just submit and demand for our new alien overlords. If there's a species capable of interstellar travel then they surely know their shit.

Edit: People, I was making a joke.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 1 points 1 month ago

By aliens they mean incomprehensible, not extraterrestrial