We're so poorly multi-threaded, even addressing climate change has been horribly slow...

- Lack of representation in government means big companies fuck up the planet if it's profitable

- People are mostly incentivized to compete, not to cooperate

- Antibiotic resistance

- Clean water supply

- etc..

"Lack of representation in government means big companies run the world" - is precisely what we're trying to figure out here, no ?

Sorry, who? Future of life institute?

In 2035. Maybe we can pause AI development in 2035?

We are not, but this AI drama is also the ultimate "whataboutism."

- What about if AI becomes AGI (whatever that actually means, it's not even clear)?

- Well, if that DID happen soon, which we can't actually know, well, what about if it tried to kill us all? (why? who the fuck knows, maybe it will chat us to death).

Meanwhile there is a very real certainty of catastrophic environmental damage that will decimate future generations, if it doesn't actually cause us to go extinct. And what do we get? People hand wringing over this ultimate what if, rather than signing every public statement document they can find to try to get an actual intervention on climate destruction.

I'm not talking (oh in 10 years maybe we'll have more EVs) kind of intervention, more like, let's get every country in the world to be off oil and gas in 5 years, not just for EVs but for almost everything possible, and where not possible let's use carbon neutral biofuel.