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Re:I do not want AI to "polish" me by MrMcCall on Wednesday January 29, 2025 @09:30AM (#42865282)
AI does not want to do anything, whatsoever.

It's owners, however, definitely want you to fall into lockstep that cooking the Earth for their billion$ is perfectly fine and that waking up to a life of low-impact, serviceful compassion to the Earth and its peoples is just virtue-signalling when, in fact, it is simply virtuous in the face of demented psychosociopaths.

Note that this all started with all that digital coin-mining. Just more burning the Earth for fakeass money so callous bastards can get richer.

Re:I do not want AI to "polish" me by oldwebguy94 on Wednesday January 29, 2025 @09:47AM (#42865471)
> Note that this all started with all that digital coin-mining. Just more burning the Earth for fakeass money so callous bastards can get richer.

Always strikes me as interesting that "Nvidia" sounds like the syllables in the middle of "invidious"

Re:I do not want AI to "polish" me by Pannoniae on Wednesday January 29, 2025 @01:15PM (#42868853)
invidia = envy in latin
Re:I do not want AI to "polish" me by danparsonson on Wednesday January 29, 2025 @09:54AM (#42865551)
Oh come on - we've been doing this since way before crypto was a thing. We knew about climate change in the 80s.
Re:I do not want AI to "polish" me by cowfriend on Wednesday January 29, 2025 @10:36AM (#42866178)
We knew about climate change in the 1880s.

There, fixed it for you.

Re:I do not want AI to "polish" me by danparsonson on Wednesday January 29, 2025 @10:56AM (#42866538)
Thanks; I don't think I said that we didn't know about it before the 1980s but extra information is rarely a bad thing.
Re:I do not want AI to "polish" me by dml2135 on Wednesday January 29, 2025 @01:40PM (#42869238)
We knew about global warming in the 1880s?
Re:I do not want AI to "polish" me by immibis on Wednesday January 29, 2025 @03:13PM (#42870528)
Yes.
Re:I do not want AI to "polish" me by dml2135 on Wednesday January 29, 2025 @09:31PM (#42874135)
got a source for that?
Re:I do not want AI to "polish" me by FrustratedMonky on Friday January 31, 2025 @06:48AM (#42886762)
Yes. The green house gas effect has been studied since 1856.

The 'right' is willfully ignorant. Not just ignorant because they just haven't been exposed. They willfully decide to be ignorant because knowledge goes against their religion.

"The year was 1856. Foote’s brief scientific paper was the first to describe the extraordinary power of carbon dioxide gas to absorb heat – the driving force of global warming."

https://www.weforum.org/stories/2021/07/scientists-physics-c...

https://history.aip.org/climate/co2.htm

Re:I do not want AI to "polish" me by MrMcCall on Wednesday January 29, 2025 @10:15AM (#42865843)
So then it's ok to not only continue ignoring it as the evidence mounts, but to actually accelerate it?

No. No, it's not. It doesn't matter how many fools do something, they're still fools. The root word of ignorance is "to ignore".

Re:I do not want AI to "polish" me by danparsonson on Wednesday January 29, 2025 @10:52AM (#42866469)
You said

"Note that this all started with all that digital coin-mining"

But it didn't. That's what I'm saying.

Re:I do not want AI to "polish" me by MrMcCall on Wednesday January 29, 2025 @11:42AM (#42867360)
They weren't using modern GPUs and muiltiprocessor machines to cook the Earth, which has been happening on a large scale since the turn of this century.

That's what I was and still am saying.

Re:I do not want AI to "polish" me by danparsonson on Wednesday January 29, 2025 @08:13PM (#42873619)
No, we were burning coal and cutting down trees. I'm not saying that what we're doing now is fine, if anything I'm agreeing with you but pointing out that profit-driven environmental destruction has been happening since way before the invention of cryptocurrency.
Re:I do not want AI to "polish" me by FrustratedMonky on Friday January 31, 2025 @06:58AM (#42886803)
"profit-driven environmental destruction has been happening since way before the invention of cryptocurrency"

Yes. People forget that every tree on the east coast was cut down. Every forest you see today on the east coast was re-grown, new. It was all clear cut for progress during expansion. I think it was mostly for 'potash' by burning it.

Re:I do not want AI to "polish" me by WillPostForFood on Wednesday January 29, 2025 @12:29PM (#42868132)
If AI gets us back to nuclear power, LLMs will have done more for climate change than all climate activists, ever, combined.
Re:I do not want AI to "polish" me by immibis on Wednesday January 29, 2025 @03:13PM (#42870521)
Not for geopolitical stability, though. What did we learn about making the entirety of human civilization dependent on a constant supply of rare materials hostile countries dig out of the ground?

And what happens when they run out? Back to carbon fossil fuels?