Comment by autoexec
12 hours ago
Sure, our actions and inaction regarding climate change threaten the very future of humanity, but on the bright side we're going to learn so much about human history in the process!
12 hours ago
Sure, our actions and inaction regarding climate change threaten the very future of humanity, but on the bright side we're going to learn so much about human history in the process!
Climate is out. Climate tech too.
AI is in.
With oil prices rising, climate tech is still quietly advancing.
This was the only way change was ever going to happen: when economics forced it.
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what if we used AI on the climate
Just gotta build out those data centers first. For the climate, of course.
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Imagine if we move to Mars only to find out we used to live there...
Nah. For centuries up to the 1850s, climate was looking pretty dicy. The little ice age, had it gone on, might have represented a return a big ice age.
The heroic efforts of early industrialists adding carbon to the atmosphere avoided this calamity and set us up with a level of comfy and productive climate unknown in the quaternary.
Amazing how humanity keeps lucking out like this.
I wonder if there were any climate change alarmists around 20,000 years ago; telling everyone that the planet was doomed if those mile-deep glaciers covering New York ever melted?