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Hank: the next couple of decades will be a period of rapid change for society and ecology (2023)

prediction · status: due 2043; outcome not yet known · last event: predicted (2023-03-31) · owner: Hank

In March 2023 Hank predicted that the next couple of decades would be a time of fast change for both society and ecology, and urged viewers to get ready.

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2023-03-31 predicted Hank says it feels obvious that for society and ecology the next couple of decades will be fast times, and urges viewers to get ready. (hedged) The Coming AI Invasion 00:03:37

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4 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).

  • 2023-03-31 · The Coming AI Invasion — The description says Hank has always loved looking at things through ecology, which he spent much of his education studying. — video description
  • 2023-03-31 · The Coming AI Invasion — Hank says ecosystems are so complicated that the effects of a change are hard to know, and only a human society may be more complicated. — 00:01:38
  • 2023-03-31 · The Coming AI Invasion — Hank says ecology offers lessons: more isolated, less diverse ecosystems are more fragile and at greater risk. — 00:02:27
  • 2023-03-31 · The Coming AI Invasion — Hank says the one certainty in ecology and everything else is change, but change is not linear: there are calm periods and periods of rapid change. — 00:03:26