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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

Well to be fair if we just go full ham with crypto mining and so called AI, we'll belch enough GHGs into the atmosphere that the actual climate apocalypse will come within 20 years or so, wiping out most of human so called civilization, which will put the climate on a path to resetting over the next couple hundred thousand years.

Solved!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like an Onion Article.

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[–] JesusSon 9 points 2 months ago

Let's unshackle him from his wealth and use that to help meet climate goals.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Obviously this statement underscores the fact that Google has too much power. Break those motherfuckers up!

[–] Snapz 8 points 2 months ago

Former CEO, current inhumane grifter chud, Eric Schmidt, who has been featured in a recent series of "saying the quiet silicon valley executive thought out loud"

[–] crystalmerchant 8 points 2 months ago

Right, let's solve our biggest problem by unfettering capitalism, and definitely will not just further concentrate power and wealth.

[–] cley_faye 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

AI will not find a magic solution. Besides, we already have quite a few directions that would help, but we're not acting on them. Pilling more "solutions" over them won't change that.

This really sounds like the parody of rich people that think they can eat and breath safely as long as they have money, the rest of the world be damned.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Not with that attitude, no... asshole! Unshackle AI companies? I'd rather guillotine them.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Unshackle their head from their shoulders.

[–] samus12345 7 points 2 months ago

Isn't this a fairly standard sci-fi plot?

AI: Kill humans off, problem solved.

[–] IndiBrony 7 points 2 months ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

The climate goals are meetable.

If we want to.

Unless AI forces us to do stuff that we know for decades to be necessary, nothing will change, except a massive amount of additional energy that we need to power the AI.

[–] Enthusiasticwhale 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Well this is the most dumb thing I've read all morning

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

I have a better idea. Let's drop climate conservation, use a load of fossil fuels to fire him in a rocket directly into the sun! Then, resume climate conservation.

[–] TotalCasual 6 points 2 months ago

This is like Satan saying "We're not going to be able to deal with mass corruption. Just burn everything. That's the solution."

That's an interesting idea... Satan...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

He just wants to run his ~~AI datacenters~~ gold mines, climate be damned. And looks like he himself sees AI as some kind of magic bullet, typical exec syndrome.

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[–] jaggedrobotpubes 6 points 2 months ago

This is escapism. Escapism that makes him money.

[–] skhayfa 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

AI solution = end humanity to save the earth

[–] Cryan24 6 points 2 months ago

Unshakeable AI companies so reprehensible characters like himself can profit from unchecked societal demise more like.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Resolution: compost & remediate ~~schmidt~~ shit. Avoid smearing ~~shit~~ schmidt on everything.

Putting it in a bunker hasn't helped it return nutrients back to environment effectively.

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