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It's fucking insane how much is invested (both money and natural resources) in the emperor's new clothes. Let's scorch the planet because every idiot out there buys into the marketing and hype. We are utterly and truly doomed because of ourselves.
Future generations will look back on the pre apocalypse population and call us sleep walkers. I know, as I'm one of them. Life is difficult enough already without jeopardising my freedom as the only way to change our course is violence at this point.
There's still time for a general strike. The country would be brought to its knees if suddenly deprived of profit and labor. That tactic was extremely effective in Chile in 2019, and had they not fallen for the trick of liberal reform, they would've had a successful revolution on their hands with virtually no bloodshed.
If you aren't in a union (or even if you are, it's worth dual-carding), please consider joining the IWW to unionize your workplace (bonus: you'll get higher wages, better benefits, and more time off if you succeed!) to strengthen a general strike if we manage to enact one.
And for our international friends, you should join one as well, as fascism is gaining momentum globally. If your country isn't listed below, just contact the IWW directly in the link above.
Also @FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
Sadly, yes.
All of these problems are caused by a remarkably small network of people. I'm not even necessarily talking about the CEOs. It's the boards of directors. This is also the pool from which CEOs are drawn one and the pool to which CEOs return after their golden parachute. They function as a living repository of evil. A warehouse of criminals and nepo-babies. (Ex: Airbnb guy joined DOGE and is on teslas board. So first he destroys the housing market for a generation, and then destroys the government, and he is the person who directs Tesla.)
Like, the network is so small it could fit in one big room.
If it makes you feel any better, our '01, '08, '14, and '20 recessions all put hard downward pressure on carbon emissions.
If Trump manages to throw us into the first full blown Depression in a century, he may do more to curb US emissions than any president in history.
Reminds me of this song. Carbon based lifeforms. World of sleepers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xu2eAI7viFw
AI and the investment around it are literally the only thing holding up America’s economy right now. If you take the artificial growth and the vast amounts of investment that are being pumped in AI development data centers, the US economy has barely grown half percentage point.
No surprise that they are going to power this beast at all costs until it falls apart along with the US economy.
I mean, they could use their fascist power grab to drive through the infrastructure work to expand power transmission lines needed to support a modern economy, renewables, and yes more datacenters
Additional coal is just the easiest way since we already have century old power lines bringing that power where it’s needed
Yes, in this case, coal might be easiest, cheapest, fastest because we can continue to neglect infrastructure. It’ll fall apart on someone else’s administration
Typical. So basically, they’re gonna turn America into Texas. Their power grid is famously shitty and has been neglected for decades due to Republican control of the government. They are constantly kicking the can down the road for some other administration to deal with it.
Everyone time there’s even a slight dusting of snow anywhere in Texas the power grid shuts off and people freeze to death. But Texas refuses to fix the power grid and nationalize because it would mean investing and bringing their shitty substandard power grid up to modern standards.
Well, I mean it's not all marketing and hype. I was able to get it to write a piece of code to scrape a RSS feed and email me if it met certain perameters. I couldn't have done that without a real grind / if at all. This is effectively the only time I've used it, and I think it's atrocious the amount of petty shit people use it for.. but there can be a functional benefit to generative AI. Makes me shed a tear thinking of the energy demand though.
People have been making web crawlers for the past 30 years. Why do you need to torch an acre of forest to do the same?
I'm sure people have been making crawlers for 30 years... But I haven't been, so I've been able to access "knowledge" and shape it for my use case. I think equating ~5 queries to torching an acre of forest is a bit hyperbolic which doesn't help anyone.
i have been using "rss2email" for years. extremely simple, works great, deterministic. no need to reinvent the wheel for a simple use case, and thats half the point here - a lot of "solutions" being found were already solved.
Isnt this essentially the case by definition? If LLMs can solve a problem it's only because a human already solved that problem (not that this is any different from what humans do)
maybe? was just trying to provide specific alternatives with a concrete example
In this scenario it needs to read a 5 day forecast capture key elements and only send the email/ alert the first time and not the following 4 days(if the alert remains the same) so in my previous attempts at RSS reader apps already in existence, they didn't meet the need.
Wow, you managed to do something you could have done without AI, but used more resources to do it.
Ah but they aren't his resources
I might not have been clear, no I don't think I could have done it. Or if I could it would have taken months and months of learning . This was generated in about 5 queries and a total of 25 minutes testing.
Jesus fucking Christ, man. RSS parsers and emailing are literally next up after "Hello, World" in programming. If that would have required "months and months of learning" as you stated elsewhere, then maybe programming just isn't for you — AI or no AI. It's OK not being able to do something! However, it's some next level 1st world entitlement shit to think that you're somehow entitled to be able to create programs without any effort on your part and with a complete disregard for the cost to the environment and the planet.
I have a low carbon footprint and my solar has exported 17,000 kWh more than my usage. Please tell me again how a 0.3 watt hour query is me completely disregarding the environment
Edit: I have ai generated search engine summaries turned off.. I hope you do too
Lame story.