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David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 8 months ago

Eric Schmidt: ‘We’re not going to hit the climate goals. I’d rather bet on AI solving the problem.’ With "alien intelligence"!

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Eric Schmidt: ‘We’re not going to hit the climate goals. I’d rather bet on AI solving the problem.’ With "alien intelligence"!

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David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 8 months ago
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Eric Schmidt: ‘We’re not going to hit the climate goals. I’d rather bet on AI solving the problem.’
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Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt runs the Special Competitive Studies Project, a non-profit vehicle for him to make excuses for the AI bubble industry. [SCSP.ai] Schmidt spoke at SCSP’s inaugural “AI…
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    They’re rebranding American Christian milenaranism. Much like the second coming and/or the rapture, the AGI god will be here Real Soon Now, so please pay your tithes and trust that the church fathers are doing the right thing.

    Much like the older cults it mirrors, it isn’t capable of delivering on its promises, but it is capable of doing substantial amounts of regular damage in the meantime, and that’s the only thing worth freaking out about.

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      Jesus 2.0 is an AI, and he’s American

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        @dgerard I dunno if you’ve read it but one of the wellsprings of this lunacy is “The Physics of Immortality” by Frank Tipler (1997), in which an astrophysics prof tries to square the circle of cosmological expansion and the resurrection through simulation, outing himself along the way as a very conflicted Christian fundamentalist who is determined to torture relativity until he can derive Jesus … https://archive.org/details/frank-tipler-the-physics-of-immortality/mode/1up

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          oh yeah

          and for the present, just how incredibly many of the rationalist subculture turn out to be ex-evangelicals

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        @dgerard @rook

        there are no white people in the bible

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          this is BIBLE 2.0 3.0 4.0!!

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            @dgerard

            lol

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