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Re:Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter by tiedieconderoga on Friday March 31, 2023 @08:41AM (#35386217)
We managed it with CFCs and the hole in the ozone layer.

Tracking and enforcing compliance of refrigerant gases doesn't seem like it would be more difficult than tracking massive expenditures on high-end GPUs.

It's not easy, but we are sometimes capable of rising to meet immediate existential threats.

Re:Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter by lelandfe on Friday March 31, 2023 @09:19AM (#35386719)
Indeed: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal_Protocol

An actual moment where the world banded together to fix a problem.

Re:Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter by awestroke on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @09:51AM (#35454175)
03 April 2023

‘This shouldn’t be happening’: levels of banned CFCs rising

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00940-2