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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 05/10/2025 20:02,
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com">spike@rainier66.com</a> wrote:<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org"><extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org></a> <b>On
Behalf Of </b>Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
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thx Ben.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
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aside from your list of good things, I noticed a big
wait-what moment:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
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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<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">One of these things is not like the
other…<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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. <o:p></o:p></p>
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😂😂<br>
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) <br>
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