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There is already a beautiful, exciting world out there full of animals and plants and we don't need AI or some computer crap to experience it. The problem is, creating all this AI and advanced technology is directly crushing that world.


> There is already a beautiful, exciting world out there full of animals and plants and we don't need AI or some computer crap to experience it.

I'm glad that this works for you, but I want more.

We're temporary apes on a soon to be permanent addition of metallicity to our sun's outer atmosphere. I don't think we should romanticize or hold anything sacred about our very temporary place in the universe.

We are metastable and ephemeral. Everything in this world is.


In that case I really hope human technology is quite ephemeral and crumbles, because I'd rather have animals have homes than people have technology.


> The problem is, creating all this AI and advanced technology is directly crushing that world.

Do you have a source for this?


This increase: https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/carbon-dioxide/

Would not be possible without the continued advancement of technology. Technology allows us to rapidly expand the human population, see all of the healthcare and transportation technology, which has resulted in a vastly higher extinction rate. Pretty much all the damage we have done on earth is only possible due to advanced technology.


There's a certain cabin-loving mathematician who'd probably agree with you about that.




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