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  • He’s way ahead of you. And I’m sure you’re shocked, but it would not achieve anything.

    Elon Musk has proposed terraforming Mars by detonating nuclear weapons on the Martian polar ice caps to vaporize them and release carbon dioxide and water vapor into the atmosphere. Carbon dioxide and water vapor are greenhouse gases, and the resultant thicker atmosphere would trap heat from the Sun, increasing the planet’s temperature. The formation of liquid water could be very favorable for oxygen-producing plants, and thus, human survival.[57][58][59][60][61]

    Studies suggest that even if all the CO2 trapped in Mars’ polar ice and regolith were released, it would not be enough to provide significant greenhouse warming to turn Mars into an Earth-like planet.[57][62][63] Another criticism is that it would stir up enough dust and particles to block out a significant portion of the incoming sunlight, causing a nuclear winter, the opposite of the goal.[57]

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terraforming_of_Mars#Use_of_nuclear_weapons













  • AI makes it worse though. People will read a website they find on Google that someone wrote and say, “well that’s just what some guy thinks.” But when an AI says it, those same people think it’s authoritative. And now that they can talk, including with believable simulations of emotional vocal inflections, it’s going to get far, far worse.

    Humans evolved to process auditory communications. We did not evolve to be able to read. So we tend to trust what we hear a lot more than we trust what we read. And companies like OpenAI are taking full advantage of that.