i keep wanting people to focus on the actual effects of the technology without making absolutely wild assertions about the nature of, e.g., knowledge, or completely peripheral issues such as "is this a good thing to spend as much water on as golf courses."
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tom mckay
these existential questions about AI all seem to me to be inherently tied to the AI hype cycle, and a deliberate lateral shift from meaningful questions about how the technological and economic trajectory of society
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If you’re just taking it from freshwater surface sources and evaporating some of it, is that even relevant?
You might check.
BTW the Colorado River suppies 40 million people downstream from its headwaters in the Rockies.
Other people think about these things
Who remembers how cramped legroom on flights caused blood clots?
Are these little pervs not satisfied with all the existing porn on the internet, problematic as it usually is? Jesus H Cripes
Easy access to porn made most pre-internet taboos relatively tame, if you were into that
Incest is a hard NO but step-X is close enough to be the last real taboo
No, I'm stuck thinking of all the absolute slop it's currently doing.
(These apps should be turbo illegal)
This includes things like sports betting.
(thinking about it I might prefer google... or at least google of 12 years ago)
But assuming we do escape this political moment and don’t regress 161 years in terms of civil rights and general health and welfare, we’re going to see an immense increase in electric demand due to building abd transportation electrification.
But the efficiency of those electrical end uses would result in overall plunge in energy use as heat pumps and EVs are far more efficient than combustion tech for same sector.
Also, people's need to heat their water is primary, your need to power a data center is tertiary.
Yall need to store H²O build your salt batteries and power yourselves
Current projections say that usage might go up 3-4x by 2030, which wouldn’t be world ending, but it would be an issue.
I also think Deepseek clowning on OpenAI with a mere $1m training budget might break the fever a bit. If brute force isn’t the way forward, why spend billions?
They keep clearcutting lots and building these huge concrete boxes. And screwing up traffic. Theyre using a fuckton of water and their heat exchangers are having an effect on the microclimates.
I'm not a fan of the demand on my local grid
B. Their distribution of how the power ends up being used is imo wrong; they have the number of conventional servers *decreasing* in 1 case
there are uses and not literally everyone is getting fired but that's the idea
AI convincing Yudkowsky to let it out of the box isn't a problem, Yudkowsky convincing us to let him out of the box is.
1 bubble
2 replace everyone at all jobs
3 uses up all the water
The revenge porn machine will still be bad when it's carbon neutral!
The video ended with a sincere comment about how the AI might end up killing us all. I largely soured on the whole video in those final 4 seconds. Why include that??
But like... I can do a lot of this shit on my PC now? Help me understand.
But that can also explain the dichotomy of "it's not useful" vs "it uses all the water" - companies spending $$$ on training iterations chasing product-market fit.