Thanks for writing this, it was a cathartic read. You articulated a lot of what I felt.
I thought this entire thing was far more applicable to AI than climate change. And one of the things that really got me is that humanity in this movie is, in fact, handed a miracle, and then manage to screw it up anyway. The scandal the president got involved was unrelated and pure luck; it should have saved the world. It’s the analog of DeepMind putting someone with security mindset in charge, building a safe AGI, and then releasing the source code.
The missed opportunity I’m most annoyed about is around this—In my version everything could go as planned via the first hypothesized miracle, then either 1. everyone could die anyway, or 2. they’d have to go back to the drawing board, get creative, decentralize (i.e. invest in other orgs or individuals), and try again. So much richer than the movie we actually watched.
Thanks for writing this, it was a cathartic read. You articulated a lot of what I felt.
I thought this entire thing was far more applicable to AI than climate change. And one of the things that really got me is that humanity in this movie is, in fact, handed a miracle, and then manage to screw it up anyway. The scandal the president got involved was unrelated and pure luck; it should have saved the world. It’s the analog of DeepMind putting someone with security mindset in charge, building a safe AGI, and then releasing the source code.
The missed opportunity I’m most annoyed about is around this—In my version everything could go as planned via the first hypothesized miracle, then either 1. everyone could die anyway, or 2. they’d have to go back to the drawing board, get creative, decentralize (i.e. invest in other orgs or individuals), and try again. So much richer than the movie we actually watched.