crazy people who look sort of like me but younger.
giving away the game a bit, Mr. Schmidt
Right, so the plan is to spend 20 years and 40 petawatt hours building a machine to answer the Great ℚuestion of what we should do about climate change. If it works, the answer will be “you should’ve stopped burning fossil fuels twenty years ago.”
This is the inevitable evolution of climate change denialism - accept it’s real and happening, just that it’s too late / too expensive to do anything about it.
this “view” (of schmidt’s) is probably the kind of shit that Really Expensive Analysts espouse at davos and in Private Advisory sessions to the kinds of people who go in for that; I’ve also heard it about GRT and “the collapse” and more
would be nice if we could know who all those dipshits are, and who they’ve preached to
This will grant us “the arrival of an alien intelligence.” Those are Schmidt’s literal words.
Speaking of alien intelligences, my new Silicon Valley blood magic startup has come up with the idea of ritually sacrificing virgins in the hope of summoning Great Cthulhu or Azathoth, as they might have some ideas of solving the climate crisis.
Not a cult btw.
Delay tactics to avoid the inevitability that we need to abandon capitalism.