[ExI] Surviving the Singularity

[Ben Zaiboc]

On 05/10/2025 20:02, spike at rainier66.com wrote:
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> Cool thx Ben.
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> Fun aside from your list of good things, I noticed a big wait-what moment:
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> *>…*If we're lucky, and the AIs are sneaky enough, there won't be any 
> chaos, and no survival strategies will be necessary, we'll just notice 
> things getting mysteriously better and better. Wars ending, 
> restrictive governments easing up on their tyranny until it's gone, 
> economies booming for no apparent reason, Afghan women with degrees 
> flying all over the globe, nobody being beheaded in Saudi Arabia, 
> global warming going into reverse, communism and religions just 
> peacefully evaporating, that sort of thing…  Ben
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> One of these things is not like the other…
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> Back when I was a callow youth, five decades before I became a callow 
> geezer, it wasn’t clear if the planet was warming or cooling.  There 
> was debate, but the 1973 Soylent Green original settled it: it seemed 
> Hollywood consensus was going toward warming.  We heaved a sigh of 
> relief, even those of us from where it is warm most of the time, Florida.
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> We recognized back then, even as callow youth, that warming isn’t 
> going to kill us.  But global cooling is dangerous as all hell, 
> because it shortens growing season rather than lengthens it.  We 
> chilled out in the promised future warmth, which never quite 
> materialized, but then we found out the time scale on that isn’t 12 
> years, it’s more like three centuries.
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> If global warming went into reverse, that roaring sound would be 
> billions of buttholes slamming shut, realizing where that cooling 
> could lead, even a little of that.
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> spike
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Maybe I should have said "climate change calming down" or something. I 
didn't mean an ice age (apparently, we should be in an ice age now, and 
global warming has saved us from that. I don't remember where or when I 
heard that, and it may not actually be true, but it makes for a fun 
little tidbit)

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Ben
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