cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/52046585

We make buildings install fire extinguishers for safety. Should AI plants be forced to install something that can shut it down in an instant?

  • CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social
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    15 days ago

    Have we? the closest I can think of is maybe the ozone hole, and that wasnt quite world ending as far as I understand it so much as a danger to people’s health.

    • ZDL@lazysoci.al
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      15 days ago

      Smallpox may be another one if the current Secretary of Health’s brain worm doesn’t decide that smallpox is good for your health or something.

      • CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social
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        15 days ago

        which of those have we actually done anything about? weve made some modest efforts on global warming but not enough to actually solve the issue, overpopulation was never really a serious issue in the first place, nuclear weapons still exist and still could be used someday, and the space stuff we have only the beginnings of an idea about how maybe deal with someday, except maybe asteroids and comets, which we have an idea of what to do but not the infrastructure to launch a big enough craft to redirect a big one in time.

      • ZDL@lazysoci.al
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        15 days ago

        Apparently you don’t.

        We’ve done nothing meaningful to contain global warming. Comets? That’s a laugh! What do you think we have that will stop a comet from creating a huge mess if it happens to be pointed to us? (You’re aware that Armageddon was a fictive movie, right?) And with solar flares and nearby supernovas you’ve entered the realm of delusion. What, precisely, have we done to “contain” solar flares and supernovas?