That’s probably what they believe, yes. But their version of “the environment” will be sanitized, sterilized, stripped of anything natural, wild, or unpleasant, and reconstructed in small patches from an idealized image of it to create “sustainable green ecosystems” for decorative and cosmetic value, carefully balancing the needs of aesthetic beauty and functional habitat for the small subset of life forms they have decided to preserve and care about. Turning Earth into a collection of novelty terrariums on a planetary scale for the surviving billionaire space-cowboys and their disciples to return to when they need a reminder of what they imagine “home” must’ve been like before their tech-utopia arrived and they became functionally immortal.
These people cannot accept and do not value anything unless they absolutely control it. It is ironic that people think they are going to create AGI and give it the freedom to take over the world. The only way they’ll do that is by accident if they somehow lose their obsessive, neurotic control over it. Granted, they are certainly not anywhere near as smart as they think they are, and such an accident seems utterly plausible if anything resembling true AGI were actually ever developed. Fortunately I think we’re a really long way from that.
So they DO have a plan to save the environment!
That’s probably what they believe, yes. But their version of “the environment” will be sanitized, sterilized, stripped of anything natural, wild, or unpleasant, and reconstructed in small patches from an idealized image of it to create “sustainable green ecosystems” for decorative and cosmetic value, carefully balancing the needs of aesthetic beauty and functional habitat for the small subset of life forms they have decided to preserve and care about. Turning Earth into a collection of novelty terrariums on a planetary scale for the surviving billionaire space-cowboys and their disciples to return to when they need a reminder of what they imagine “home” must’ve been like before their tech-utopia arrived and they became functionally immortal.
These people cannot accept and do not value anything unless they absolutely control it. It is ironic that people think they are going to create AGI and give it the freedom to take over the world. The only way they’ll do that is by accident if they somehow lose their obsessive, neurotic control over it. Granted, they are certainly not anywhere near as smart as they think they are, and such an accident seems utterly plausible if anything resembling true AGI were actually ever developed. Fortunately I think we’re a really long way from that.
That was so well put
No, they have a plan to automate the destruction of the environment after our demise.