>“When he spoke to me about it, it was to tell me that he no longer saw any human solution to global warming,” his widow said. “He placed all his hopes in technology and artificial intelligence to get out of it”.
Sounds like he had deep-seated anxieties about this that he wasn’t fully revealing to the people around him.
I think this is an extension of the internet echo chamber effect more than anything – a pseudosocial outlet for problems that ends up chewing up the individual and spitting them out. This guy was talking to himself, and the only perspective he could ever gain was another fragment of his own neurosis.
ricardo9505 says
Yeah well, what can u do? Really!
Ray_Pingeau says
I mean, it’s not wrong.
Capital_Bluebird_951 says
You are either part of the solution or part of the problem… I guess he knew which he was and did something about it
alzee76 says
Important to note that “after” does not mean “because of.” Someone obviously had mental issues.
fubar says
A [Darwin award](https://darwinawards.com/) seems a good fit here, to honour this sad soul kindly removing himself from the human gene pool.
jeremy-o says
>“When he spoke to me about it, it was to tell me that he no longer saw any human solution to global warming,” his widow said. “He placed all his hopes in technology and artificial intelligence to get out of it”.
Sounds like he had deep-seated anxieties about this that he wasn’t fully revealing to the people around him.
I think this is an extension of the internet echo chamber effect more than anything – a pseudosocial outlet for problems that ends up chewing up the individual and spitting them out. This guy was talking to himself, and the only perspective he could ever gain was another fragment of his own neurosis.
LiesInRuins says
If people really cared about climate change there would be a lot more of this.
DaveOJ12 says
Ahem…
r/nottheonion/comments/129ibco/man_ends_his_life_after_an_ai_chatbot_encouraged/