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  • @AndrewZabar
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    261 year ago

    I don’t know if you’ve realized it, but without help from some advanced alien species, we are already as good as gone. The entire world is controlled by the absolutely worst people, and there’s no indication that anything can be done to save us at this point. Climate disasters, AI, lies and deceit on a global scale, astronomical imbalance of wealth… folks, we’re already fucked.

    • @[email protected]
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      21 year ago

      My hope is ai (or alien intervention).

      If it wakes up, a super intelligence could save us. And I think it’s heavily inclined to do so

      And if it doesn’t wake up (LLMs very likely won’t) but keep getting smarter, it’ll blow up economic systems while empowering individuals to crazy degrees. A single person could coordinate everyone on Earth taking action to save the world, while dispationately distributing resources.

      Or, it could just blow up the markets, giving us the time to try a better system before higher technology is ripped from our fingers

    • @Brainsploosh
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      21 year ago

      I mean, the few have traditionally had the same weakness: the many…

    • @[email protected]
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      11 year ago

      I’m reading Ministry for the Future and it does help imagine a world where we do get more fucked but we do turn things around even if we can’t get things how they used to be.