And they expect us to choose data centers? Fucked up. And our elites are corrupt enough to do just that ...

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.

Slop machines that make everything horrendously expensive or self-preservation? Hmmmm. I know which I would choose.

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.

Ez choice, as long as you're not corrupted and evil

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 :/

They may have overplayed their hand.

such a hard choice... /s

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 😃

Ok, thanks

Both may be possible if the production of hardware, services and electricity can be performed ecologically meaningful.

I think the choice is obvious

It doesn't matter. All available resources will be put into AI. The location of the data centers doesn't matter, the internet provides access. It can only be avoided by actively prohibiting it globally. But the nations don't look as if they would be ready to cooperate.

how much time do we have to spend in this era of AI evolution, where tf is the reset button and why hide it ffs