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AI Experts No Longer Saving for Retirement Because They Assume AI Will Kill Us All by Then (futurism.com)
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[–] 25 points 1 year ago (6 children)

No, Y2K would have been catastrophic.

But a shit ton of people out in a ridiculous amount of work and everything was updated.

People concerned were fucking "doomers", they were the reason shit didn't go terribly.

But because rational.people helped everyone avoid the consequences, idiots think we could have just ignored it and had the same result.

It's fucking ridiculous you didn't learn this lesson from covid even if you're too young to have experienced Y2K

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    Its like the problems around the ozone hole, or acid rain.

    A lot of people scrambled and worked very hard to find an alternative that didn't cause problems, and now it's almost like they never existed, and people think it was much ado over nothing.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    Had a friend who was hired by a temp agency to reprogram outdated mainframes in an ancient programming language. He was paid for training. There were ARMIES of people like him doing last-minute fixes. Y2K would have been a tremendous disaster if people had just ignored it.

    See also: the environment, but without armies of people working on fixes.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I should've specified. Even after there were a a ton of work put in, doomers existed to the last second. There were doomers who really thought the world was going to end without mentioning the technology aspect of it. These doomers, even after the date passed kept moving up the date and repeated this process.

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  • [–] -4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The streak continues that anyone who uses "doomer" has no fucking clue what they're talking about ..

    You deleted your first reply because it was bullshit, then you make a new one to double down on it?

    Fuck man, how do you expect to learn anything when the list of shit you need to learn apparently covers everything?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    I delete my first comment because I specified what I meant in my reply.

    If you don't think doomers existed after the year 2000 then look up "2000 anxiety" and "2000 paranoia".

    But if I was really going to double down this would by my response:

    Many countries invested little to no money in Y2K and they were fine.

    Countries such as South Korea, Italy, and Russia invested little to nothing in Y2K remediation,yet had the same negligible Y2K problems as countries that spent enormous sums of money. Western countries anticipated such severe problems in Russia that many issued travel advisories and evacuated non-essential staff.

    International Data Corporation estimated that the US might have wasted $40 billion.

    Then I would ask you:

    Since you are such an expert on Y2K, what would've happened if the US took the same approach? What exactly would have happened?

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