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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Theorists and futurologists refer to it as the 'Great Filter' .... a series of challenges that civilizations go up against which determines if they make it past the filter or not.

Our current filters are climate change, nuclear war and artificial intelligence ... will we use nuclear tech or AI to benefit ourselves? Will we work towards dealing with climate change? or will us acting negatively with all this be the cause of our regression ... or destruction?

We have equal capability at this point ... we are just as capable of collectively solving these problems .... or using them to destroy ourselves.

Our collective futures are most definitely in our own hands ... whether or not we use those hands for good or ill is up to us.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

AI right now is not a challenge. It's inflated vapourware.