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Comment · 3 years ago
A gentle walk through the first couple pages of your post history suggests you have very strong opinions about American government and that this is just bait to cause a ruckus
Comment · 3 years ago
Claiming the cold is the proximate cause of death while you’re dying of COVID seems like a poor analysis
Comment · 3 years ago
Most of the world becomes uninhabitable or volatile during that lead up where the world is getting hotter. Not decades where it’s fine and then too hot. The coast lines will rise pretty quickly. Most fish will die. Most agricultural centers will become unfarmable.

Sure you can make a bunker and live off of supplies. But you should not expect any substantial infrastructure or long distance travel to remain. You will not have fuel. You will not have steel. You will not have farms. You will not have water infrastructure, and ocean water will begin to pollute sources while others dry up. You will not have mega fauna to hunt. Most large plants will die. Your generation facilities will quickly become unuseable.

Sure there will be small plant life and critters and life will adapt. But nothing that a human population will be able to survive in. Living off of dwindling supplies is in a sealed off environment like guy on mars doesn’t count as surviving meaningfully imo.

Comment · 3 years ago
Spotify web client with Adblock works best imo. No shuffle playing of albums. Or “shuffled” radio playlists. Don’t even need premium.
Comment · 3 years ago
You are imagining a world where people live in caves but we still have global shipping routes and large construction projects and nuclear reactors?
Comment · 3 years ago
Brain does not have capsule networks
Comment · 3 years ago
> Keep in mind that dinosaurs evolved in a 12°C warmer world.

Sounds like a ridiculous claim to me. Source?

Edit: searching seems to suggest 5-10 degrees warmer. 12 warmer seems like an aggressive bet, but it may be possible

> Move to high elevation and latitudes. Make use of shelter and caves. Make use of cooling technologies.

Ok and what are you going to eat? And use to power your cooling tech? And how will you create fresh water? And where will you acquire raw materials to build things? And how will you survive the severe weather?

Comment · 3 years ago
How do you intend to survive a 10c temperature increase?
Comment · 3 years ago
Why would you assume youth data is not a serious revenue stream? Parents are likely a large target market
Comment · 3 years ago
Net neutrality rules come to mind
Comment · 3 years ago
You seem to be taking my usage of the word prescient as meaning he can either see the future perfectly or he cannot. That’s… not what it conventionally means. I simply mean his track record of predicting the future trajectory of AI is not great.
Comment · 3 years ago
I didn’t say anything you’re suggesting.
Comment · 3 years ago
I’m not arguing Hinton is wrong. I’m arguing that Hinton doesn’t really matter here. The “godfather of AI” doesn’t make him particularly prescient.
Comment · 3 years ago
They didn’t really go anywhere.
Comment · 3 years ago
If you want an authoritative opinion on the societal impact of something I would want the opinion of someone who studies the societal impact of things.

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