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Jacob Coxon’s old archived tweets (hilbertspaess.pages.dev)
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Before AI Doomer Coxon’s ‘hilbertspaess’ account was made this year, an account by that name had previously been created and deleted at least two times prior. And, according to the Internet Archive, the first display name on that account was ‘Jacob Coxon’. So it’s reasonable to say that it was his account then too, and thus its posts are his unfiltered intellect.

Someone on Twitter by the name Dugan Nash put together a dedicated archive of hilbertspaess’s old tweets from the internet archive, hosted at https://hilbertspaess.pages.dev/

The things a rationalist doomer bro was posting on twitter in 2022 might surprise you! If you somehow weren’t expecting to see anything about IQ, the Holocaust, AI, or NFTs.

Via Futurism, via Reddit SneerClub

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[–] 1 point 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Not to mention that if we didn’t give up on global warming, that would have slowed down AI development, giving more time to prevent AI doomsday.

Well we haven’t given up on global warming since we still devote trillions of dollars into climate change solutions plus the rapidly growing clean energy transition that’s overtaken gas in power generation. But I understand the main point-which is that AI and climate change are linked problems, so ignoring climate change to focus on AI is kinda impossible since data centres are a big warming contributor

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    We did give up on it. New shiny shit comes along and they need electricity, where do they get it? Converted airplane turbines, even reciprocating ship engines, etc, all running on natural gas. All the green pledge companies just polluting like there’s no tomorrow, quite literally.

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  • [–] 1 point 20 hours ago (1 child)

    We haven’t as I mentioned solar and wind have overtaken gas generation, 2.3 trillion was invested into energy transition in 2025

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  • [–] 2 points 17 hours ago*

    I think that's a separate phenomenon. Renewables are often cheaper than fossil fuels, which is great.

    But to avoid pollution, we must actually leave fossil fuels in the ground, unused, unburned.

    You know what is the big green initiative at fossil fuel companies? Using renewable energy to power fracking. The worst case scenario used to be that we only leave fossil fuels in the ground when the energy required for their extraction exceeds energy obtained by burning them. Now, the range of scenarios has expanded in both directions. We can leave fossil fuels in the ground because it's cheaper to do renewables. But also we can extract and burn below-energy-breakeven fossil fuels.

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