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the virgin "agi existential risk"
- programmer LARP fantasy that makes coding the signle most important skill for saving humanity
- entirely based on thought experiments
- zero evidence
- assumes that there's this vaguely defined concept known as "intelligence" that can be linearly increased as if it were as matehmatical quantity
- projects an anthropomorphic drive toward control and power onto algorithms that just do statistics to spit out words; colonialist self-report
- sponsored by billionares who want to make thrie tachnology seem more important than it is
- blackmails you from the future using faulty logic; doesn't actally make any sense
- "oh no, i guess we have to build the Doom Machine now. i guess the course of technological progress is inevitable, oh well"
the chad global warming
- incomprehensibly complex and interconnected polycrisis
- reveals deep-rooted flaws with the dominant politico-economic paradigm; demands a fundamental shift of human value systems by its sheer physical existence
- verified by the entire scientific community
- billionares don't want you to think about it because it is too scary
- resist ideological simplification
- will actually kill you
- doesn't even need intelligence to threaten humanity's survival
- divine retribution for fossil capital's greed and wanton exploration of the natural world
what will most people do, who don't have a google pixel?