cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/31597508
Great timing and phrasing. “Be slow about slop development ooor… Burn everyone and everything!”
Both may be possible if the production of hardware, services and electricity can be performed ecologically meaningful.
Slop machines that make everything horrendously expensive or self-preservation? Hmmmm. I know which I would choose.
And they expect us to choose data centers? Fucked up. And our elites are corrupt enough to do just that …
Bezos literally said that once AI is good enough, it will solve all our problems.
That’s what they believe, or at least want us to believe.
Bezos: “it will solve all our problems.”
Wow.
That is not optimism - it is religious fervor.
That has become a religion, or it might be more apt to say, a cult.
It’s quite literally what happened in Don’t look up
If only all choices were this easy! Choosing between AI and climate goals is like choosing between a shit sandwich with a side of barbed wire spaghetti vs a gourmet meal.
What I find interesting is that a lot of these changes which are attributed to the purportedly “inevitable” changes associated with AI (or partly with its not-adoption), are real consequences of climate change.
- loss of employment? Check.
- profound change to living conditions? Check.
- loss of labour productivity - including knowledge work? Check.
- threathening the stability of the world-wide financial system? Check.
- increasing likelihood of war? Check.
- threathening even the continuity of human civilization? Check.
- threathening the capability to compete on national scales if the change is not reponded to swiftly by governments? Check.
- Correlated with obscene amounts of wealth concentration, impoverishing the huge majority of people, and disintegrating societies? Check.
It’s as if AI is used as a distraction. Like the “accusation in a mirror” pattern.
What I find most damning isn’t that the mentally ill ruling class doesn’t care about us peasants. It’s their utter disregard for the future of their own offspring. Why the fuck are these people bringing new life to the planet they’re actively racing to destroy? Genuinely mind-boggling.
It’s their utter disregard for the future of their own offspring.
Also disregard for our living planet and all life on it. Which is, take note, the only place we know in the universe that life exists there.
It is not only a cult - it is a death cult.
I think the choice is obvious
They may have overplayed their hand.
Give the planet over to a probability matrix which is based on the collective works of lifeforms (us) who require that planet to survive…
OR choose to keep surviving and creating your own works, on that planet.
Just for my synapses, currently fried under this heat dome, the question boils down to this: would I rather suffer a bit more for the sake of AI, or for the prospect that things might actually get better on this planet again? So, it’s a straight-up choice between selfishness and the collective good - and well, we know just how brilliantly those kinds of questions work out for our species :/
Ok, but think about all the profits the ai companies are making, and all the tax revenue they will pay to fund healthcare, social security and public schools! /s
Well, alright 😃
