• betanumerus@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    The coal and O&G industries have been pushing themselves as suppliers to power AI, so don’t blame AI without blaming the coal and O&G industries.

        • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
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          But they aren’t choosing renewables, they’re choosing coal. People are responsible for the choices they make.

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            23 hours ago

            Some companies choose renewables, other don’t. They aren’t only one person.

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              21 hours ago

              How many of the AI companies that chose coal actually produce something worthwhile? Seems like the first the these nuScience fuckers should do with their digital overmind is create clean power.

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                19 hours ago

                Using renewables to power AI for optimizing uses of renewables somehow is a good idea and I’m sure someone is working on it, but not everyone.

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                  17 hours ago

                  We don’t need AI to know how to use renewables. We’re just unwilling to implement then on a sociality scale.

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                    4 hours ago

                    I am totally willing to implement renewables. Whether you use it to power cars, homes, datacenter or AI and why, that’s anther discussion.

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      People get distracted over the fate of the pure speculative frenzy could be an AI bubble, and the harm to the hapless speculators and banksters could have a minor impact on the rest of the economy.

      Reality is far worse than an AI bubble. It is a US mission for a fossil fueled powered Skynet for Israel that is too big to fail. Bubble in AI investments becomes unlikely, but total destruction of rest of US economy/prosperity becomes assured when the “plebs able to eat in America bubble” bursts is a sacrifice that a fossil fueled powered Skynet for Israel is willing to make.

      If Americans are still able to afford to eat, then China or Iran wins.