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[aksemmi]

If I was the more conspiratorial sort I would find the rise of global fascism and explicitly anti-refugee politics a few decades before climate change disaster is scheduled to pick up... kind of suspicious, like the system preparing to preserve the accumulation of production and wealth by mass death.

I think the system can be described as intelligent and possessing some level of foresight (via collective human foresight), but I don’t think it has that much foresight, explicit ecofascism exists but is still too rare to seem to really account for this. So I don’t think this is what’s actually going on, not yet anyways. Still disturbing me though.

[aksemmi]

Given that there were (seemingly) several very close calls to nuclear Armageddon in the Cold War, and given that the US is unlikely to retain global hegemony for long (?), should we expect a high chance of nuclear war breaking out in the 21st century and adjust our behavior likewise (stronger focus on defusing international conflict or such?) or should the previous incidents fizzling out lead us to believe that nuclear incidents in the future will probably also do so? Or is there reason to think a second Cold War is unlikely?

[lilbluntworld]

[lilbluntworld]

Mfw we need to stop using coal as fuel because if civilization crumbles the survivors will need coal for instant low tech energy but if we use it all now they won’t be able to rebuild

[lilbluntworld]

[lilbluntworld]

[lilbluntworld]

“Maybe humanity is destined to destroy itself before it reaches this stage.”

“But note that if the way we destroy ourselves is via misaligned AI, it would be possible for AI to build its own technology and spread throughout the galaxy, which still seems in line with the spirit of the above sections. In fact, it highlights that how we handle AI this century could have ramifications for many billions of years. So humanity would have to go extinct in some way that leaves no other intelligent life (or intelligent machines) behind.”

[lilbluntworld]

Blackpill on misaligned AI is that even conquering the cosmos won’t save us. You can hide but you can’t escape

I guess it should be

Blackpill on conquering the cosmos is that we can’t hide from misaligned AI