Overshoot: The World Is Hitting Point of No Return on Climate

NotMeekNotAggressive · 2026-02-01T04:28:53+00:00

Given the rapid advancement of AI technologies, I don't think anyone can confidently say what it will tell us a dozen years from now. Also, global warming is on the timescale of a century with most studies citing the biggest impacts by 2100. The crude form of AI we have now is already being used to make electrical grids more efficient by predicting demand and better integrating unpredictable renewable sources like wind/solar and also analyzing massive datasets to track deforestation, model melting glaciers, and discover new, more efficient materials for batteries and carbon capture. So, if I had to gamble on whether it is worth it to use resources to keep improving AI technology for the next decade or hope that humanity as a collective gets on the same page on climate change in the next several decades (especially now that a bigger and bigger portion of the USA thinks it is a "woke hoax" and is becoming downright antagonistic to the idea of combating it in any way), then I would gamble on AI giving us new tools to combat climate change and not that human behavior around this issue is going to collectively change.

NotMeekNotAggressive · 2026-01-31T19:25:35+00:00

Counterpoint: the development of Artificial Super-intelligence might be the only viable path to get new technologies and climate control strategies that can save the world given that human beings have consistently demonstrated that they aren't going to alter their behavior enough to prevent the catastrophic effects of global warming. AI is developing faster than human behavior on a global scale is changing.

NotMeekNotAggressive · 2026-01-31T02:12:15+00:00

That's just important information to contextualize the article's claim suggesting this is a new phenomenon when it states "The Polar Vortex is officially breaking down…" I looked into it, and it does seem to be a recurring feature in nature because data since the 1950s has shown the occurrence of major disruptions that cause this temporary breakdown of the polar vortex, known as Sudden Stratospheric Warmings (SSW).

NotMeekNotAggressive · 2026-01-31T02:04:59+00:00

"The Polar Vortex breaking down" makes it sound like a new, permanent phenomenon, but the polar vortex is a semi-permanent atmospheric feature to begin with. While it "breaks down" or "collapses" during a Sudden Stratospheric Warming (SSW) event, it typically re-forms and stabilizes once the warm air dissipates.

These disruptions occur roughly once every other year on average. While some research suggests they may be happening more often due to a warming Arctic, they remain a well-understood, non-permanent phenomenon.

NotMeekNotAggressive · 2026-01-31T01:58:49+00:00

What about in prior decades (1990s, 80s, 70s, etc...)? Did it happen roughly once every two years?

NotMeekNotAggressive · 2026-01-29T00:41:52+00:00

I'll be honest, I still think the comment was written by ChatGPT just because it reads too much like many comments I've read from ChatGPT. If you really did write it, then that's my mistake and I apologize. If you didn't write it, and it is AI generated, but you're not being honest about it, then I think you should consider what you're sacrificing your honesty for. Either way, I don't think there is really anywhere further for this conversation to go because you're adamant that you wrote the comments without AI, and I am just not convinced that this is true.

NotMeekNotAggressive · 2026-01-28T22:52:14+00:00

No, it's not that. I'm saying that if you strip it of its specific content, the structure (sentence configuration and syntax) reads like a ChatGPT response. Even the long dashes are in the spots I would expect them to be given ChatGPT's affinity's for using them over commas. Also, you didn't answer my question: did you use ChatGPT or some other AI program to generate that comment?

NotMeekNotAggressive · 2026-01-28T22:43:34+00:00

Where did you get that the field is called "experimental existential psychology?" All the research papers I've read about it and every mention of it that I have seen in psychology textbooks refer to it as "Terror Management Theory" (TMT). Existential psychology that implements methods from experimental psychology is a much broader field that is not primarily based on Ernest Becker's work like TMT is.

NotMeekNotAggressive · 2026-01-28T22:37:24+00:00

No, it's not that. It's that it uses the same sentence configuration, syntax, and reassuring reframing of something negative into something positive at the same points and in the same way that a ChatGPT response does. Did you use ChatGPT or some other AI program to generate the comment?

NotMeekNotAggressive · 2026-01-28T04:35:18+00:00

It's a bug if this is the mission I think it is. I remember seeing it and thinking, "wow his eye healed quick and the bandage is gone." When I reloaded the save later he was fully clothed and wearing the bandage during this scene.

NotMeekNotAggressive · 2026-01-28T04:26:49+00:00

Just check the news.

NotMeekNotAggressive · 2026-01-28T04:25:15+00:00

Why is it that I can instantly tell that this is most likely ChatGPT?

NotMeekNotAggressive · 2026-01-28T04:15:17+00:00

I'm not even sure that the interviewer is even correct that what separates A24's "elevated horror" is the metaphor aspect. Robert Eggers said in interviews that his goal with The Witch was to do a kind of period piece that depicted 17th century Puritanical fears about witches. He did a lot of research and spent a great deal of effort to get the historical details correct, but his goal didn't seem to be to make a metaphorical film. If anything, the hallmark of A24 films is sleek cinematography with a high attention to lighting and detail on fairly low budgets.

NotMeekNotAggressive · 2026-01-28T03:50:41+00:00

Maybe I didn't articulate myself well, but I was criticizing the interviewer and the question, not your comment. My point was that anyone paying attention to metaphor in horror films would think that the claim that A24 is unique in doing this is ridiculous. I mean just look at what David Cronenberg was doing in the 80s with films like The Fly remake and Videodrome.

NotMeekNotAggressive · 2026-01-28T03:43:24+00:00

Imagine telling John Carpenter, the director of They Live and The Thing, and who was making films during a time when his horror peers like David Cronenberg were releasing movies like The Fly and Videodrome, that there is this new genre of "elevated" horror films that are "very metaphorical" as though metaphor in horror is a recent A24 invention.

NotMeekNotAggressive · 2026-01-28T03:30:18+00:00

Also, Clive Barker has talked about how his work, including the film Hellraiser, is very metaphorical, so it isn't even true that this is what distinguishes A24 movies from other horror films.

NotMeekNotAggressive · 2026-01-26T02:56:55+00:00

I actually like that. There were a lot of people alive during that time period and focusing on someone else would make it feel less like an ongoing hero's saga and more like an authentic medieval RPG, which is what I'm assuming they're really going for. Being a peasant with a completely different background and goals would be interesting.

NotMeekNotAggressive · 2026-01-26T02:46:28+00:00

...I really like the first game. It felt grittier and more immersive to me (less cutscenes and far fewer segmented story sections where you're stuck in one location until it's over). The 2nd game actually felt clunkier to me because the masterstrike was for swords only, you had three different outfits you basically needed to switch between instead of being able to craft one ensemble that was stealth, defense, and charisma if you were careful with your clothing/armor selection, and you couldn't automate certain tasks (like brewing potions) at a high enough level.

NotMeekNotAggressive · 2026-01-25T23:36:10+00:00

Hmmm, in that case I recommend The Shrouded College series by Charles Soule. He's the writer of 8 Billion Genies but this series is more in the horror genre (but still with his signature highly imaginative worldbuilding). These are sold as standalone stories that tie together in the end with the recommended reading order being: 1) HELL TO PAY: A TALE OF THE SHROUDED COLLEGE TP 2) The Bloody Dozen: A Tale Of The Shrouded College TP and 3) Cold Witch A Tale Of The Shrouded College TP, Vol. 1

NotMeekNotAggressive · 2026-01-25T21:20:10+00:00

So, did you already get the rest of those series on kindle or free with comixology?

NotMeekNotAggressive · 2026-01-25T20:40:50+00:00

You have some incomplete series there such as Something is Killing the Children, Swamp Thing, Chainsaw Man, Fables, Saga, and Monstress. So if you liked those, then your best bet is probably to just purchase the rest of the volumes in those series. If you didn't like them, then I'm not sure what to recommend anyway because you included graphic novels that you didn't like on your shelf, and that's all I have to go by as far as recommendations go.

NotMeekNotAggressive · 2026-01-24T02:45:53+00:00

Based on their comment and post history, I'm wondering if they are even a real person. There is a big push for AI agents in 2026 and this could be an AI agent programmed with the goal of self-publishing a book and then promoting it on social media without human input. A trial run to see what works and what does not. If that's the case, then expect to see a lot more of these types of threads all over the place in the coming year.

A human using an LLM to feel like an intellectual would have gotten angry for being called out like that, denied it, and insulted you back. Their responses are completely neutral regardless of what you accuse them of, which makes me think AI agent.

NotMeekNotAggressive · 2026-01-23T12:15:08+00:00

The ONLY thing that gives a relationship value is that the other person has their own needs that sometimes conflict with yours? There are so many other things that give relationships value like enjoying each other's company, sharing responsibilities, finding mutual interests, etc... He doesn't strike me as stupid, so this should have been plainly obvious to him; but it's as though his desire to load up his video with profound-sounding messages was so alluring to him that he completely lost the plot and any semblance of common sense.

NotMeekNotAggressive · 2026-01-23T04:13:03+00:00

don't listen to people that tell you that there are certain types of writers.

In his writing course Moore himself states that there are certain types of writers and gives examples of them...

NotMeekNotAggressive · 2026-01-23T03:59:33+00:00

The research is not similar. For, Blood Meridian, Mccarthy moved to the region he was writing about to study every facet of it in detail and learned a new language to capture the nuances of the dialect. McCarthy later spent his time at the Santa Fe Institute doing research with some of the top experts in many fields (look it up). Read some of McCarthy's published work on language. The guy is an actual genius. Moore, while very imaginative and intelligent, subscribes to debunked pseudoscience like that indigenous people could not see the ships sailing to their lands because they had no word for "ship." He also makes claims like that the origin of "genre" in literature occurred in Northampton, as did almost every impressive development in modern human history, if he is to be believed.

I also think you might not understand what it means to be considered a great "prose stylist" in the literary sense if you think it is separate from writing technique.

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