• Bookmeat@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    The problem with repairing the earth’s climate isn’t that we don’t know what to do. It’s that humans refuse to organize themselves in a way that achieves that goal. AI won’t fix that.

    • spidermanchild@sh.itjust.works
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      3 months ago

      Unless the plan is something more like Terminator. If you “unshackle” AI and give them a mandate to get CO2 back to 250 ppm things are going to get real.

      • Zink@programming.dev
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        3 months ago

        You know that thing where reality is so ridiculous that people would reject the same stuff in works of fiction?

        Yeah it bothers me that you said that, lol.

    • thegr8goldfish@startrek.website
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      3 months ago

      A few bad actors can undo the work of thousands of hardworking people who care. I genuinely don’t know if the problem is solvable if it requires cooperation of the entire species. Some men just want to watch the world burn.

      • AA5B@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        A few bad actors l, like Schmidt, have been delaying the work of thousands of hardworking people who care. This has continued for decades, making a once solvable problem almost intractable. Further delay is the worst possible choice