Re:Up to one million species are on the verge of extinction,...
by dogcomplex on Monday May 06, 2019 @03:26PM
(#19842845)
Same thing. Money = flexibility and control. People may feel the environmental anxiety, but feel powerless to do anything about it because they have to spend all their time working (if they can) to make ends meet. Social media stats/clicks are a similar race to the bottom to make money. Overall there's a sense that every part of our lives, environment, social sphere, and future is being over-leveraged, over-risked, and is hanging from a high wire above oblivion.
[ Parent
| on HN ]
Re:Up to one million species are on the verge of extinction,...
by TOGoS on Monday May 06, 2019 @04:18PM
(#19843372)
The way I like to spin it is: the paperclip maximizer that AI futurists worry about is already here, in the form of capitalism, and we're all part of it. It doesn't care about life; just numbers in bank accounts.