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[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 38 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's legit scary to see tech approach the point where private companies might develop systems that could and in some way are endangering humanity as a species, and all their decision-makers are concerned with is corporate success.

[–] No_Eponym@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

... to see tech approach the point...

Big oil would like a word, alstarting in 1950 at least.

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not to mention literally researching global warming before anyone else bothered, verifying it is happening and that humanity is causing it, then spending decades gaslighting our entire species into widely believing it isn't.

[–] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

We knew about global warming since 1900. We just didn't care.

Unless.

[–] Sabata11792@ani.social 3 points 1 year ago

Give it a few years and they will get a military contract to endanger humanity more efficiently.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Moore's law of mad science: every decade, the IQ needed to end civilization drops by one point.