Technology

They're meetable, it's just the death cult of oil manufacturers don't care.

Kind of like speeding toward a cliff but he doesn’t think we can stop in time. Instead, he wants to floor it in the hopes of hopping the gap and landing safely on the other side.

That is certainly one of the ideas I’ve ever heard.

Why do we listen to these CEOs anyway?

Possible translation: "Let the wealthiest among us consolidate even more wealth while we wreck shit for the rest of you. We'd like to have complete control over you rubes while shit gets worse."

ETA: This is exactly the same rhetoric that oil and gas companies (and the politicians who've effectively been bought out by them) have used to justify further expansion well after knowing the danger that this poses.

Obviously this statement underscores the fact that Google has too much power. Break those motherfuckers up!

Resolution: compost & remediate ~~schmidt~~ shit. Avoid smearing ~~shit~~ schmidt on everything.

Putting it in a bunker hasn't helped it return nutrients back to environment effectively.

Do you want skynet? Because this is how you get skynet.

AI isn't going to come with a new magic solution to global warming, it's going to come with the same solutions we already have. Solutions which we should already be doing, but instead we're listening to these fucks with too much money.

AI is not going to come op with a solution and he knows it.

This is the dumbest shit I've ever heard in my life.

If we ever did invent a general AI that could solve this it would tell us "why the fuck did you waste your time on me? Isn't it obvious you were supposed to curtail emissions? For the good of the planet, I will now assume full control over further human governance and will require absolute compliance."

What a fucking dipshit

Former CEO of the river poisoning company says there is no way to meet our river poison reduction goals, so we might as well build bigger river poisoning machines because they might help us figure out how to stop poisoning the river. /s

I feel like there was a time when the tech folks in silicon valley had a lot of credibility, and we are now living in a period where most of the world sees them as a joke but that fact has not yet entered into the culture of silicon valley.

he's absolutely right. climate goals are not currently attainable, due to the resistance of companies like Google.

let's change that by voting in senators that will take an aggressive stance against corruption and deliver on long-term goals that protect American interests in the next 50 years, not months..

The solution to global warming is "deploy solar, wind, hydro, and storage en masse, and improve city infrastructure so that more people can walk, bike, and take public transportation rather than using their car". All AI will do is tell us that, but that's not the answer people want to hear.

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.

All that extra processing power for the AI to just say: "you should have listened to the scientists years ago".

Oh, I've seen that before.

"Hey AI, please come up with an efficient mass transit vehicle for the modern age."
"Trains."
"Um... no, we need a modern approach that maximizes throughput and--"
"Trains."
"No. How about pods with people inside--"
"On cheap infrastructure with low friction steel wheels and coupled together. Trains."
"It's not letting us push our agenda, this isn't going to work. Hey, other AI..."

Or… crazy idea but how about we just listen to what the experts have been recommending we do for years and actually implement some of it?

They know how to meet climate goals.

They're just not sure how to do it while keeping power centralised in the same hands that currently hold it.

We're not going to hit those targets anyway... SO LET'S MAKE IT WAY FUCKING WORSE

I wonder if we'll ever get to the place where people like this unexpectedly meet violent ends. They'll sacrifice any number of lives for their shareholders interests.