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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)
submitted 2 years ago by [M] to c/techtakes@awful.systems
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[–] 98 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Right, so the plan is to spend 20 years and 40 petawatt hours building a machine to answer the Great ℚuestion of what we should do about climate change. If it works, the answer will be "you should've stopped burning fossil fuels twenty years ago."

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  • [–] 36 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    "Oh no what do about all this waste heat?"

    "Generate more waste heat"

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Repeat until a machine that can create God is built. Then it's God's problem.

    But it must be a US God, otherwise China wins.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    The US god will team up with the Chinese god and the Russian god to beat the crap out of us.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Then the middle eastern god will blow up the indian utopia because he is bored and the british fungus space god will rule over the remains.

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