CocoDaPuf

CocoDaPuf t1_jcafic7 wrote

Reply to comment by smokebomb_exe in What can a ChatGPT developed by a well-funded intelligence agency such as the NSA be used for? Should we be concerned? by yoaviram

>Americans are dividing themselves

That's where you're wrong, Americans were not dividing themselves this much until nations started directly influencing the public conversation.

Edit: I also don't want to imply that I think American agencies aren't conducting their own AI driven disinformation and "public sentiment shaping" campaigns. That's certainly a thing that is happening. If anything the US has a larger incentive to use AI for that, as here it would be much harder to keep the kind of programs China and Russia use under wraps, the "troll farms" which are like huge call centers for spreading misinformation, anger and doubt.

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CocoDaPuf t1_jan4exx wrote

Reply to comment by questioillustro in NASA’s DART data validates kinetic impact as planetary defense method | DART altered the orbit of the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos by 33 minutes by mepper

This is one of the "realest" problems humanity has.

The dinosaurs went extinct. They died because of something they couldn't predict and had no control over. We have now gotten better at predicting asteroids and the dart tests show that we finally have control over the situation.

To contrast, I'll use climate change as an example of "a real problem".

Like asteroid impacts, climate change is another existential threat, but we've been able to predict the effects of it for nearly a hundred years and we've always had control over it (all we have to do is agree to change how we generate energy, build things and move things around). On some level, climate change has always been less of a problem for us, because it's a slow process the solution is so obvious.

Asteroids will happen suddenly and without warning if we aren't tracking every single object we can all the time... It's like we've been living on thin ice our whole lives, in constant danger, we just never think about it. We've never before had this kind of possibility of survival vs an asteroid.

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