Comment on People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies

• Allero@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  People were always manipulated. I mean, they were indoctrinated with divine power of rulers, how much worse can it get? It’s just that now it tries to be a bit more stealthy.

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  • vala@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    In the past our eggs were not all in one basket.

    In the past it wasn’t possible to fuck up so hard you destroy all of humanity. That’s a new one.

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  • MangoCats@feddit.it ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s just that now it tries to be a bit more stealthy.

    With regard to what has been happening the past 100 days in the United States, it’s not even trying to be stealthy one little bit. If anything, it’s dropping massive hints of the objectionable things it’s planning for the near future.

    There are still existential threats: thebulletin.org/doomsday-clock/

    The difference with a population of 8 billion is that we as individuals are less empowered to do anything significant about them than ever.

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  • kameecoding@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Well, it doesn’t have to get worse, AFAIK we are still headed towards human extinction due to Climate Change

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    • Allero@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Honestly, the “human extinction” level of climate change is very far away. Currently, we’re preventing the “sunken cities, economic crisis and famine in poor regions” kind of change, it’s just that “we’re all gonna die” sounds flashier.

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      • MangoCats@feddit.it ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Currently, we’re preventing the “sunken coastal cities, economic crisis and famine in poor regions” kind of change

        Are we really preventing it? Seems like the track toward that change is mostly unabated. Sure, it’s a couple of generations out before it gets serious, but what are the signs that the track has improved?

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    • MangoCats@feddit.it ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m reading hopeful signs from China that they are actually making positive progress toward sustainability. Not that other big players are keeping up with them, but still how 1 billion people choose to live does make a difference.

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      • kameecoding@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yeah, China is doing rather well in transition to Renewables and Nuclear, though it might be concerning for the future when we will have to buy everything Solar and SMR related from them

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