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mdemone posted:yeah I had to stop reading after that it's loving amazing. literally watching an asteroid about to hit the planet and saying "oh no, no, we have a giant net, see? sure, the last asteroid got through, killed a whole city, but our net is better"
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“It’s Miami,” she said. “We are surrounded by water! There’s not a solution. But nothing is going to happen!”
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mdemone posted:yeah I had to stop reading after that I had to stop reading because of the long, boring descriptions of jewelry and attractiveness
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Dead Beef posted:
when your climate is normal
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I love those Miami articles, I love them so much. They're my happy place.
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Telephones posted:gods mad!!!! if we only roll back our social mores 200 years god will surely smile wait that didn't help? poo poo maybe we should've listened to the scientists after all too late now though best to just keep burning the oil and making numbers go up - neolibs 2050
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good news climate thread: according to wikipedia, the only things we have to worry about are AI and nanotechnology. hooray!
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animist posted:good news climate thread:
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posting more cause i'm mad that list is utterly nonsense. The list of extinction threats goes, like: 1. runaway climate change 2. natural pandemic 3. full-scale nuclear war and then the rest are orders of magnitude less likely. that list is really like somebody played sci-fi channel madlibs. like, "nanotechnology accident", what? "grey goo" is a thought experiment, not an actual threat. and "engineered plague" listed above "natural plague" -- in what universe are biomed engineers (a.k.a. "throw things at lab rats and patent whatever sticks" engineers) more dangerous than *all of the diseases* produced by natural evolution? also lol at "wars (including civil wars)", just lol of course, the really telling dreck is "Superintelligent AI" at the top of the list. if you look through the rest of [the article](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_catastrophic_risk) you'll see lots of citations of people like Nick Bostrom: a singularitan crank who makes a living telling people that they don't need to worry about global warming, because thinky-robots are scarier. Those people like to call themselves rationalists / "Effective Altruists" ("give your money to effective causes, like me, so i can protect you from HAL 9000"); they're also the Roko's Basilisk people. They have the ear of Peter Thiel and a bunch of other nasty billionaires and they insert themselves into every loving conversation about climate change to distract people with their loving grift. every time i see people talking about "superintelligence risk" instead of climate risk i want to punch them, and then send them on a weekend tour of Venus to see how not-risky climate change really is okay madpost over back to sardonic nonchalance
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it seems to me like the real risk from "AI" is trusting machine learning to run everything and it just crashing the economy and impoverishing the world or going haywire and radicalizing people to turn into fash- gently caress anyway all these effective altriusm assholes are just turning charity into another "efficiency-focused" market
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Gareth Gobulcoque posted:If you read the UN ipbes report it gives a range of 30 to 700 million displaced migrants by 2050, lol leptokurtic probability distributions are a persistent problem in modelling the effects of climate change
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animist posted:posting more cause i'm mad my dude i agree with you completely but also that list is an alphabetical order and a for artificial intelligence comes before g for global warming e: their list of extinction threats and probability, and the amount of space dedicated to each threat, is indeed lmao-worthy though it's like some turbonerd decided to write his thesis on AI and nanotechnology in the form of a wikipedia article and only gave a few sentences to climate change because oh, it wouldn't actually make humanity extinct so therefore it's fine vyelkin has issued a correction as of 13:40 on Apr 10, 2019 |
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Has the blizzard started hitting yet? It's super cool and normal how that's gonna happen.
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love climate change and extremely normal climates
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Dead Beef posted:we're already killing ourselves with not-very-intelligent AI we need a new enlightenment where we all realize we're actually dumb as loving poo poo - I think it'd be a lot healthier than our compulsory god complex
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Shima Honnou posted:Has the blizzard started hitting yet? It's super cool and normal how that's gonna happen. when the blizzard hits  I don't think it's gonna get bad until later today. Looking forward to even more corn states being underwater again
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the bitcoin of weed posted:when the blizzard hits Gonna be extremely lol
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Telephones posted:we need a new enlightenment where we all realize we're actually dumb as loving poo poo - I think it'd be a lot healthier than our compulsory god complex 
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Way ahead of everyone re: knowing I'm a dumbass.
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cspam is leading the way
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net work error posted:So what's the plan. posting murder fantasies on the internet
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the bitcoin of weed posted:when the blizzard hits hell yeah. unironically our best chance for survival is corn states n south n florida to get loving wrecked over and over again. would suck for millions of people but with the senate and EC, it's literally our only hope for survival
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Love 2 worry about AI overthrowing humanity as close to a billion people are slowly forced to migrate due to climate change
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Mayor Dave posted:Love 2 worry about AI overthrowing humanity as close to a billion people are slowly forced to migrate due to climate change AI already destroyed humanity but it was the boring corporate profit-maximizing kind and not the cool sci-fi skynet kind so nerds didn't give a poo poo
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Xaris posted:hell yeah. unironically our best chance for survival is corn states n south n florida to get loving wrecked over and over again. would suck for millions of people but with the senate and EC, it's literally our only hope for survival You can bet your rear end those states will never have populations less than three: one rep and two senators. The Senate will be red forever barring nationwide cultural changes.
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redleader posted:is there a BIG WEATHER thread that watches/discusses all these extreme weather events? Weatherocalypse thread in the Science sub-forum of Ask/Tell
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vyelkin posted:AI already destroyed humanity but it was the boring corporate profit-maximizing kind and not the cool sci-fi skynet kind so nerds didn't give a poo poo we paperclip gamed ourselves to death to create virtual dollars on a computer somewhere.
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redleader posted:is there a BIG WEATHER thread that watches/discusses all these extreme weather events? Just make it, if the mods tell you no or close it down, keep posting it. They are powerless.
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redleader posted:is there a BIG WEATHER thread that watches/discusses all these extreme weather events? thats this thread tbf
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redleader posted:is there a BIG WEATHER thread that watches/discusses all these extreme weather events? there was one but it's probably on like page 5 by now e: ah no it's right there https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?noseen=0&threadid=3868390&perpage=40&pagenumber=111#pti6
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Telephones posted:we need a new enlightenment where we all realize we're actually dumb as loving poo poo - I think it'd be a lot healthier than our compulsory god complex the universe seems to corroborate this, it's really dumb
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redleader posted:is there a BIG WEATHER thread that watches/discusses all these extreme weather events? The Weatherpocalypse thread in the Science, Academics, and Languages subform of A/T has been super dead for like a year, unfortunately. Gbs used to have a yearly hurricane hoedown thread back in the day, lol. In Denver and can confirm, it sucks outside now. We arent getting 80mph winds knocking power out across the city this time tho so no probs vaping it up tonight 
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