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hnlmorg • today at 5:15 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

There’s no substitute for human knowledge. What if the climate crisis gets to the point where we cannot justify boiling the ocean to perform tasks we’ve come to depend on?

What’s our disaster recovery strategy in the event of war and loss of internet?

Or worse yet, a near extinction event and we are forced to rebuild civilisation from memory?

Some of these might seem like extreme edge case scenarios but then history is full of disasters that people didn’t prepare for because they assumed they were too big to fail.


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andsoitis • today at 5:18 PM

> There’s no substitute for human knowledge.

Would you not say that AI is an expression of the sum of all human knowledge? And as humans continue to generate more knowledge, it too, will be added to the AI's representation of it all?

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elisbce • today at 5:25 PM

That already happened many times in history to many civilizations. Knowledge was discovered and lost, and rediscovered years later or never.

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