And my definition of climate change doesn't entail passing some arbitrary benchmarks[1] that some random person arbitrarily labelled a problem to make it sound more dangerous.
It's obvious that these scientists are in bad faith, as they've invested way too much of their lives into the field being real -- they're just playing up the data. Common sense tells me that winter is still happening, anyway; what's the big fuss?
Are you using this satire to argue that a benchmark self-labelled AGI is as scientifically rigorous as climate change data, and not just a random marketing decision?
If you think they're announcing AGI as a marketing decision, you are blinded by the accidents of your birth. Capitalism is strong -- humanity's instinct for communal preservation is stronger, sometimes.
And yes, the one deeply-researched field going back 75 years is as scientifically rigorous as another deeply-researched field going back ~100 years. I guess you can draw climate studies back to Descartes and the Islamic golden age, but that doesn't privilege it in a time where the methods have changed completely in the span of decades.
Climate change is not a well defined term in some way that AGI is not.
What's climate change? Is 1.5C climate change? Is 1.0C climate change? Is ozone depletion part of climate change because it eventually changes the climate, or is it a separate issue?
Ultimately climate change means "a climate that changes", and AGI means "an artificial intellience with general capabilities". From there, many scientists have defined the terms in various slightly-different ways for various reasons.
Just because these scientists make you anxious doesn't mean they're not scientists.
It's obvious that these scientists are in bad faith, as they've invested way too much of their lives into the field being real -- they're just playing up the data. Common sense tells me that winter is still happening, anyway; what's the big fuss?
(/s, cause you never know these days)
[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e2/The_Plan...