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▲ TheBlight an hour ago

Let's take the flipside of your hypothetical [1]: What if it actually tells them man-made global warming is real but insignificant compared to other forces outside of human control that are acting on global climate?

▲pron an hour ago | parent [-]

Same. The point is that intelligence alone doesn't confer an unlimited power to effect change, and it's pretty easy to see that it doesn't.

▲TheBlight 39 minutes ago | parent [-]

I guess my point is I bet true ASI would break a lot of shibboleths across all ideological boundaries such that, to your point, all people aren't going to accept it. We'll probably all decide it's wrong or broken.

▲intrasight 4 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

>all people aren't going to accept it

You don't have to accept it but you will have to live with it.

▲pron 24 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Ok, although I don't think that's likely. It will have access to the same information we have, and so I doubt it will reach too many conclusive results that go against scholarly consensus.

▲TheBlight 4 minutes ago | parent [-]

And if this expectation is violated... :)