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Re:AI winter is well on its way by Scea91 on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @08:49AM (#17187234)
It would be great if people feared climate change the same way they fear AI takeover.
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Re:AI winter is well on its way by akvadrako on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @10:42AM (#17188017)
Climate change is not an existential threat - primitive humans survived for 200+ kyrs when temps were 10°C cooler and thrived during warmer temps.
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Re:AI winter is well on its way by mr_toad on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @09:35PM (#17193313)
They weren’t reliant on agriculture to sustain their civilisation.

Sure, the human race is unlikely to die out unless we get to mass-exinction levels of climate change, but our civilisation is a lot more fragile.

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Re:AI winter is well on its way by akvadrako on Thursday May 31, 2018 @03:02AM (#17194491)
If agriculture is the biggest worry, it’s no big deal. Not only will more land enter temperate zones, but I don’t doubt we’ll be able to breed heat resistant varieties fast enough to keep up with 0.05C annual changes. That’s nothing.
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