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this post was submitted on 31 May 2026
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Regarding the post humanist strain, the thing that kills me is their immediate assumption that solving the world's problems is somehow fundamentally beyond the reach of humanity. Like, we can't build a utopia or make the world better, but if we build something new and "better" than us then it would definitely do that. But that something definitely doesn't come from, say, raising out children to be good people or choosing the right leaders or something so mundane and achievable. It's a fundamentally defeatist ideology, with shades of capitalist realism and millenarian theology.
This is also why I find people who claim they’re making AI to “solve climate change” to be insufferable morons. We have a solution to climate change. You and your data centres are actively making the problem worse
"Okay AGI, how do we fix climate change?"
"Well, I have some ideas but it seems like this would've been a lot easier if you'd stopped emitting greenhouse gasses when you first learned it was a problem."
some recent data shows the 2020s dip quite significantly: https://www.iea.org/reports/global-energy-review-2026/co2-emissions
which is, well, hopeful at least. if we ever get any global movement on consensus to deal with the issue
That’s great news actually. The point still stands that we very well know how to deal with climate change, so trying to make AI models fix it is dumb
"Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made" - Kant[1]
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[1] it's worse in German, weirdly - "Aus so krummem Holze, als woraus der Mensch gemacht ist, kann nichts ganz Gerades gezimmert werden"