God I’m going to be so fucking pissed off if I die in a war that kills half the world because some dumbasses take it into their heads that global fucking warming is an x risk worth trying to conquer the world over
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“Haha you AI risk believers are a millenarian cult! Also the solution to global warming is urgent and simple. Rule the world!”pic.twitter.com/c2prtN3OUx
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I have no idea how the fuck someone decides that a thing that has never happened in 4 billion years is “mathematically” more likely than something that has happened multiple times in the last billion
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Oh wait I know it’s the kind of opinion you get by reading science journalism.
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The Yellowstone caldera has erupted three times in like two million years and people are freaking out that a little carbon in the atmosphere is going to kill all life on earth
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Replying to @drethelin
it's weird to see people wringing their hands over the unrealistically exaggerated version of that concern when the totally realistic version of it (2-4 degrees C oceanic warming, and all the resulting biome shifts) is pretty much a sure thing and has serious consequences.
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Replying to @danlistensto @drethelin
none of which are X risks. just environmental degradation on a large enough scale that things get really shitty and land/resource wars (especially over fresh water supplies and arable land) starts to become dominant geopolitical concerns.
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Global warming will increase the amount of fresh water and arable land.
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yes, but not in places where people currently live or farm. redevelopment and mass migrations is gonna happen. that could be messy.
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