Bezos donates $100M each to CNN contributor Van Jones and chef Jose Andres

Re:Bezos donates $100M each to CNN contributor Van Jones and... by X6S1x6Okd1st on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @05:07PM (#27912193)

I don't think people that think about this as their day job consider climate change to be the existential threat we are fixing by going to mars.

It's generally: nuclear war, asteroid strike, super volcano bioweapon/plauge and possibly malicious AI.

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Re:Bezos donates $100M each to CNN contributor Van Jones and... by 8note on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @05:57PM (#27912721)

Super volcanoes, nuclear wars, asteroid strikes and bioweapons makes earth about equal to living on Mars or the moon. You could build all the same things on earth instead, for a fair bit cheaper.

Malicious AI would almost certainly affect the moon or mars more heavily than earth, since on earth you can survive without high tech solutions

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Re:Bezos donates $100M each to CNN contributor Van Jones and... by dumpsterdiver on Thursday July 22, 2021 @05:05AM (#27916878)

> Malicious AI would almost certainly affect the moon or mars more heavily than earth, since on earth you can survive without high tech solutions

They do have the benefit of being air gapped, though.

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