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Replying to @Plinz
Because it's extremely fatalistic and frankly intellectually and practically lazy. The process we call *Life* deserves respect and care. Climate change is not a done terminal deal just yet.
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Replying to @samim
Ah, I thought because the robots are not a done deal just yet
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More seriously, I think it is most likely that the crucial climate tipping points were before 1990. We are not headed for more than 6 deg C before stabilization, and there might be little we can do about it, even if we are all of course in favor of trying.
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Carbon capture very likely won't work at scale. Perhaps we can cool by changing surface albedo with reflectors, or with artificial clouds, but it is not clear what that will do to the weather. OTOH, Valar Morghulis. It not warming, it'll be AI, a plague, a supervolcano or meteor.
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Replying to @Plinz
Agree with your analysis, climatechange is beyond the tipping points & we'll get in our life a 6+deg reality. Yet since (natural) death await us all soon enough either way, i find fatalism (or even end-day porn) rather lazy/boring. Emir Kusturica said it nicely: "lets dance!"
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Replying to @samim
Yep. Not coming to terms with mortality is morally lazy, too. Also, not building robots is intellectually lazy :)
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Replying to @Plinz
I'm totally fine with having super intelligent robots (and finally coming to grips that there are large scale distributed intelligences throughout the cosmos, like fungi & computing nebula). I do think though, that they will essentially be just "Life", not something "else".
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Replying to @samim
Have you seen the movie "Life" (2017)? It is a bad movie, but it nicely nails what might be the logical endpoint of biological evolution. It's not pretty.
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Replying to @Plinz
haven't seen it, reading an abstract does sound rather bleak ;) I do hope/suspect, that reality/nature/life turns out to be much more weird (in the psychedelic sense) the more we learn about it ;)
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Basically, an optimally efficient life form, where every cell is muscle, photoreceptor and neuron at once, and the resulting fast and super intelligent organism eats arbitrary carbs (including us) and scales to arbitrary size until is has devoured all it can.
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