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[–] 54 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Climate damage related to AI workloads could exceed $50 billion by 2030

It's a sad state of affairs that even when talking of extinction level threat, it is still quantified in monetary terms. Unsurprising, considering it's written by Allianz.

"Do you know how much money our investors will lose if the human race goes extinct???"

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago

    The current investors are hoping to be rich enough to have their own compound by the time the climate catastrophe gets that bad. By the time they lose money, it will be fairly meaningless. This is why I’ve always hated measuring climate damage in dollars - we can’t measure real world catastrophe against a societal construct

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago

    People have the memory of a gold fish when it comes to anything long term, so they just vote against their best interest again because they're incapable of connecting the dots.

    They understand money to some extent though, but even at that scale, not as much.

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