A Boring Dystopia

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Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt says we should go all in on building AI data centers because 'we are never going to meet our climate goals anyway' (www.businessinsider.com)

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[–] jaggedrobotpubes 14 points 2 months ago

That would make sense if we were all going to blink out of existence*, but we're going to still be here, with raisable and lowerable levels of suffering.

"My toe is already stubbed, no reason not to cut both my legs off"

*actually no it wouldn't because AI is still a massive threat even without the climate getting worse from it.