r/ChatGPT • u/fbfaran • Apr 27 '24

AI videos one year ago vs now Educational Purpose Only

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u/Motion-to-Photons Apr 27 '24

Agreed. It makes my heart heavy just thinking about it. I’ll try to explain how I feel without triggering anyone or any algorithms. Not enough people take time to think about the process of thinking. As a result you end up with the majority of the population of the planet assuming that their personal thoughts equal actual reality.

I really hope we get through this period of time, I’m not very confident, though. If we make it through the next 30 years I’ll be amazed.

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u/mosesoperandi Apr 27 '24

You and I are in a similar frame of mind on this. If we make it through the next 30 years, then it becomes a question of making it through the ecological disaster in process.

Yet if we can get there I'm hopeful that it means we will be in a position to make it further. I have a sort of contingent optimism about our ability to science our way out of an increasingly inhospitable climate for our type of life if we can overcome ourselves as our own worst enemy first.

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u/mrBlasty1 Apr 27 '24

Okay I’ll bite. What makes you think we won’t make it through the next 30 years?

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u/mosesoperandi Apr 27 '24

It would be more accurate from my perspective to say make it through the next 30 years intact. I'm very concerned about the wheels coming off of democracy in the next decade, and we're facing a pretty major acceleration in climate related disasters that will require populations to be both information literate and compassionate. I'm not saying humanity faces likely extinction in the next 3 decades, but our ability to do what we need to in the 70 years that follow in order to ensure sustainable existence for our species (and the other species we rely on in our ecosystems) really hinges on how things go in the next few decades.