• chuckleslord@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    The CGP Grey video with the conclusion of “don’t do anything, it’s impossible to solve, robots will save us”? Yeah, I wonder why no one’s done anything to understand/ change our trajectory because of this.

    /s

    Also, this is you suffering from the curse of knowledge. This is common knowledge… to you. It is not common knowledge. Like, not even a little bit. The opening of Office Space has the protag languishing in traffic that he is overwhelmingly contributing to by switching lanes as soon as the one next to him starts moving, but it’s never acknowledged that that’s what he’s doing cause, again, that’s not common knowledge.