As ocean oxygen levels dip, fish face an uncertain future
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#2I tried to get newspapers to report on it and they kept telling me they already covered ocean acidification.
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#3Aside from Ocean Acidification, uncontrollable Algae Blooms, and Melting Sea Ice, we now have Ocean Deoxygenation on our plates. We also have unprecedented droughts on land as well. Humans really will be the next mass extinction event on this planet. So incredibly selfish.
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#4How is that solar shade coming along?[10]
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#5Aside from Ocean Acidification, uncontrollable Algae Blooms, and Melting Sea Ice, we now have Ocean Deoxygenation on our plates. We also have unprecedented droughts on land as well. Humans really will be the next mass extinction event on this planet. So incredibly selfish.
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#6Weird this was syndicated onto BBC also
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#7Good. They should tough it out and grow a pair—of lungs, that is. Living in an aquatic environment has made all the fish grow soft. Time to evolve like the rest of us did.
(More seriously, warm ocean dead spots affect more than just fish: I suspect we’ll see a further decline in marine mammals too, for example.)
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#8Looks like we are the paper clip optimising narrow AI we’ve all been afraid of after all…
We don’t make paper clips though, we’ve optimised to make money and turn everything into it.
So ashamed to be part of of it,
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#9Looks like we are the paper clip optimising narrow AI we’ve all been afraid of after all… We don’t make paper clips though, we’ve optimised to make money and turn everything into it. So ashamed to be part of of it,
Many science fiction authors have made surprisingly incisive contemporary critiques in the forms of allegory and metaphor. Bostrom is unusual mainly in that he doesn't seem to know when he is doing it.
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#10I think a (dis)info campaign touting the toxins and pollutants in fish could be a major environmental win. Humans have destroyed huge amounts of ocean life, and with fish populations already devastated, climate change is going to push many species over the brink to extinct.
I feel like - even if requires pseudoscientific explanations or bald-faced lies - it would be a net good for the world if people thought there is a chance eating fish could kill them. Alarmism over heavy metal accumulation happening at increasing rates, fish absorbing pesticides and poisoning people, stuff like that. Idk if it's happening, but I feel like it would be good for the environment if people believed that.
(disclaimer: i don't enjoy the flavor of fish anyways, so my cost-benefit of this is different than most peoples.)