The sad part of this announcement was that it is hardly being noticed by anyone.

The house is burning with a fire that is starting in the basement and everyone inside is partying or arguing about the colour of the wallpaper or fighting for a better seat in the living room to watch TV while a couple of scientists are standing in the rear porch with documents describing how the house fire will progress in the next few hours.

The Doomsday Clock is turning into a real life exercise of Zeno’s Paradox.

In the next 4 years you can probably use the thing as a desktop fan.

Dude it's like 2:45am we done assploded

George Carlin would be proud

This is a great analogy.

AI won’t cause doom! We are going to accelerate right past doom into doom solutions.

Finally a case use for “AI”: solving the problems caused by AI

DSaaS: Doom Solutions as a Service

Ah, the dawn of a new day.

I'm just waiting for 1am. In 1983 russia almost atomic bombed the united states with an all out assault. Every atomic bomb they had in retaliation for the USA already firing 4 atomic rockets at them.

The firing orders needed 3 men to agree to the retaliation bombing. The first two men turned their key. The third man refused. His logic was "Why would the united states fire 4 rockets, and only 4 rockets in a surprise atomic bombing against a land as big as russia, KNOWING it would trigger an all out atomic assault? If you're getting the element of surprise, you use it to decimate any retaliation ability we may have. Kill us before we can fire back. This is a false alarm!"

And he was right. The 4 atomic bombs they were following on radar turned out to be clouds. Without that third man, russia would have unprovoked fired every nuke at the USA they had. Ensuring an atomic war that likely ends all life on earth.

In the 90s when I found out about that, I said "Whew! That would have happened just before I was born! Luckily there was the 3rd man."

Now with how the world has turned out, that 3rd man is now the villain of the story.

So now I'm just waiting for 1am on the doomsday clock. C'mon big giant astroid thats ends it all! Humans had their chance, and they fumbled the ball like the cleveland browns.

Really? Closer than Cuban missile crisis? I'll grant you climate change might warrant it, since that's a slow moving thing that possibly is already passed the point of no return for feedback loops. I'm not sweating nuclear war or pandemics.

Wow! Is that the atomic clock doing a 180? Or does Mikey have a hard-on?

We just had a pandemic and bozo over there just turned off HIV meds for the poor around the world. Bozo also happens to have the nuclear codes for a good price. And you think this is not worse? I can't help the situation but it is worse.

well, time only travels in one direction, sooo... i wonder how much of their rationale has to do with china's domination in ai

Stanislav Petrov, the man that saved the world from annihilation.

Anyone else kinda relieved we still got more than 15 seconds?

I was thinking the same. Next year it'll be measured in milliseconds

Now with how the world has turned out, that 3rd man is now the villain of the story.

come on, he's a hero! imagine a world post nuclear war... can't be better than what we have now

Well, see, what I'm imagining is that there IS no world post war. And that's better.