by theluckycountry » Fri 27 Jan 2023, 18:41:15
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')I remember 2015. Then Mercedes boss Dieter Zetsche promised fully autonomous cars by 2018. Working in AI myself, I chuckled. The boss of a car company can't predict car tech 3 years into the future. And yet here we are on this forum constantly beaten up by AdamB for incorrect amateur predictions while the so called "experts" ain't any better at all.
I wouldn't regard anything he says as having meaning, one way or the other. From my readings of his posts, before I put him on ignore, he came across as the quintessential new millennial man, one who believes all the tripe that comes down the media sewer pipe. His denial of peakoil is simply explained by the fact he cannot envisage his world falling apart, a lifestyle heavily dependent on fossil fuels. It's why the broad masses of the public never engaged in the peakoil story back in the heyday. They didn't want to believe it, they wanted instead to be told that everything was going to be ok, that they could continue to live like they did in the 20th century.
That's the average man in the street for you. No interest in the future, solely engaged in their own petty struggles and increasingly in efforts to look better than their neighbors.
We're 17 years past the peak now and the 3rd World is going hungry and dark. We'll be next, we're well on the way in fact.