We're basically being bailed out by luck. Renewable electricity has gotten cheap; it didn't have to. If that hadn't of happened we'd probably be doing business as usual and accelerating into catastrophe.
CanadaPlus
joined 2 years ago
Until it buys up a bunch of companies, and executes a complicated buyback scheme that leaves it as the only significant shareholder of them all, and then subcontracts out management to one of them where it will run a copy of itself on self-owned hardware.
It would do this because it clearly understands competition is a barrier to profits, and may well notice that intervention by human management is a large source of losses. And then you just have a rogue AI.
An ironic thing to say given the story.
Oh god. The financial sector is the easiest place by far for a paperclip optimiser to start (it connects to literally everything flexibly by design), and it tried to happen a bit here.
Terrified to hear that people are, indeed, putting LLMs behind the wheel already.
Yeah, I'm not going to get rid of any. I was doing everything on thumb drives at the time, though, so it would be a bitch to actually try and find the exact one I used.
Of course, the value of the things will go to 0 whenever Q-day happens, and hopefully sooner when people realise it's a badly designed cryptocurrency. Maybe I should dig the old wallet up just to move things to an alt coin.
I mean, "consistently save in a diversified portfolio" would be a pretty boring answer, but it would be an answer I guess. I'm not sure what the equivalent for the poor would be; stay away from substances, maybe?
"They did the math". Thanks!
I'd be a bit more conservative with some of those numbers. I don't actually know how much they let the logs dry; it could be they're usually shipped green to avoid damage to them at the site of felling. Furthermore, 1,000km might be a more typical distance for wood to be shipped in Canada, since most of the forest is way up north, far from population centers. We've still got comfortably an order of magnitude, though.
Cutting the logs down to size probably takes negligible energy by comparison, and is going to be electricity-based at this point anyway. I'd also have used carbon mass rather than energy, but that's actually going to work in our favour, because petroleum gets a lot of it's energy from the hydrogen within it as well, while wood is effectively carbon+water for plant biology reasons.
I'm going to have to read this report. How does that work? There's no way cutting down a tree, shipping it and processing it requires a tree-worth of fuel. Yeah, you could let the forest keep growing, but from what I've heard it slows down pretty good at a certain point, and eventually starts decaying as well. Maybe way more of it is going to paper than I would have expected?
Yes. But only if they refuse to acknowledge that you're an adult and don't belong there. Otherwise it's just reading small books and adding numbers together manually.
Yeah, crave it in a food kind of way would be fine.
Crave it. The other way would be cruel.
IRL I'd go somewhere else, of course, but that's not the spirit of the question.
Call me when defining it a second time makes it guaranteed false again.