Or maybe the coming apocalypse from strong AI?
I like that one, but it seems like there are several completely different kinds of computing systems that are being called AI.
The Fermi Paradox is interesting, but everything is just guess work because we only have one data point for life, Earth.
If you start your hot button issue I promise to come on by to give it the benefit of my considerable ignorance.
My primary hot button issue is the Anthropocene and how human impact on this planet has created a precipice and we are already on the slippery slope heading in to a really indefinite future. I have been embedded in the habitat loss and invasive species parts of the equation for the last 30 years or more. I despair the out right attacks on science and knowledge and education, which are the only things that can sustain our civilization and give us any chance of surviving global warming.
It's harder to find time for EvC and if I do, I'm much more interested in sharing ideas than debating that subjects that by their very nature can never be settled.
I'm really, really tired of assholes and I have jettisoned every single one from my life.
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