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hottari@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Nudding@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Or the, ya know, climate apocalypse currently unfolding lol.

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  • hottari@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Climate apocalypse? Climate has been apocalypsing long before we humans got language to even describe it.

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    • Nudding@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No it hasn’t. Have you been paying attention to the anomolies this year?

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      • evranch@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Both are correct but it’s a misleading argument. Yes on a geological time scale volcanic eruptions have had a greater impact on the climate that humans have.

        However that doesn’t change the fact that we fucked up the planet for ourselves by effectively producing a slow burn volcanic eruption over the last century. This wouldn’t really be a big issue if we hadn’t also exploded our population to the point where we now need all of the land on the planet to feed everyone, and a drop in agricultural output would be catastrophic.

        It’s just that on top of that you can also lay awake at night concerned that the planet itself might decide to kill all of us at a moment’s notice and there would be nothing we can do about it. See: Permian extinction

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• RememberTheApollo@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  AI could exacerbate all of this. Misinformation, panic, xenophobia, rising fascism, etc.

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  • hottari@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    AI is nothing more than a program developed by humans.

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    • RememberTheApollo@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And a gun is pieces of metal put together by humans? Not sure what your point is, but it’s all about how you use the tool.

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      • hottari@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Then call AI what it is. Not some skynet bot from some other planet coming to take over Earth.

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