You’re a moron if that’s your only response to a valid observation. AGI will likely change everything to the core of our society, being cautious and a little scared about that tidal shift is extremely reasonable.

I agree with this point of view. Anyone that claims anything with absolute certainty is spouting BS

I assume it’s just OpenAI’s discord. You can find that on Google

Can everyone just learn about Synchron already? It’s superior to both neuralink and this new idea

Please could you share an example of where commitment to net zero at all costs is exacerbating the situation?

Guess what: if we had a robust renewable system energy prices wouldn’t be through the roof.

You definitely could be correct, but I still can’t read it any other way than kicking the can down the road hoping for some unknown future tech to clean up a mess that we should have been cleaning up already

Actually you’re the one that sounds completely ignorant to the actual facts.

For instance, we do already have the technology to brute force it. A combo of wind, Solar, hydro, geothermal and nuclear fission alongside a robust storage system whilst electrifying what we can would be enough to get to net zero and beyond, plus carbon capture and direct air capture for the rest/reversing.

Secondly, the way I interpret your stance is “but future technologies will save us so what’s the point in caring enough to do anything now”. If I’m correct in that interpretation, that’s just dumb AF. Relying on some yet unpredictable technology versus a highly simulated and rigorously reviewed set of climate scenarios that all point to us needing to take action now to stop the worst effects is ridiculous. The result of taking action on climate change is a net benefit; new industries, new jobs, increased biodiversity and better water and air supplies, increased economic success due to the intrinsic link between nature and economies, adoption of circular economic practises which would keep our environments clean for future generations, less cost in the long run, etc etc etc - there is literally zero argument for not taking action that holds up to scrutiny.

Also, there wasn’t just one ice age, and we had more than rocks and sticks ffs.

I wouldn’t feel so high and mighty if I were you.

Nuclear fission, direct air capture, green-powered desalination plants, wide scale adoption of renewables other than fission, increased capacity to store energy, nature-based solutions that put biodiversity at the forefront: these are how we can do it today. Then if fusion comes along: SORTED.

The hell is VTSAX?

Would you have an alternative sub suggestion for asking this question?

Yep, the way I see it: anyone who is making statements with absolutely certainty doesn’t actually understand the situation to the level they think. The truth of it is: no one knows, it’s totally unpredictable

Could you expand on this please? Would love to hear more info on this so I can deep dive into learning about different scenarios. Thanks!

I’m also not the one downvoting you OP, but for real if you’re going to post something in r/singularity, please do some background research so you can at least fill us in with details in the future

No because the risk involved isn’t what makes it gambling. In traditional work you’re literally trading your time/effort/expertise for money, whilst in crypto, stocks and speculative assets like NFTs you’re just rolling the dice and hoping the outcome is positive. Can those hopes be calculated? Sure. But it’s still gambling.

Buying groceries, going for a walk, reading a book, talking to someone, doing a workout, solving math equations, cooking a meal, sleeping.

This is just a short list of examples to back up my next statement: wtf are you talking about!?

This is what I’m getting at: could we start extremely simple, and scale up from there until we have a future prediction tool

I agree, these things look like how dreams feel

….what’s that got to do with the original comment?

But how do you request? There doesn’t seem to be an option

Private?

Yeah I can imagine it has a massive psychological impact. And the turn around in 2021 after the hype was pretty sudden iirc.

You still in the crypto space or did you take you stacks and run?

Haha I’m not announcing anything! I’m purely hopeful that LEV comes quick enough for me, just like everyone!

Congrats on timing ETH like that. Big enough fortune from it to deal with 100k+ in losses or was it up and down by the same amount of 100k+?

A couple of 100K? Mind if I ask what you do for a living?

It’s a helluva drug

This was a brilliant read, I appreciate you putting the time into the response.

I agree for the most part, but I also cling onto the idea that we literally can’t predict how AI and automation is going to impact things. It’s like an unaccounted for variable that can’t be added to our models of prediction (I think there’s a term for that, like an ‘unpredictable externality’ or something, but I can’t remember what the term is!).

So whilst I agree, let’s just see what happens as AI develops and is integrated into molecular sciences more and more!