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Re:My AI skeptic friends are all nuts by GardenLetter27 on Tuesday June 03, 2025 @07:02AM (#44168623)
What environmental cost? The uranium is going to decay on its own anyway, we might as well use that energy for useful things.

Maybe LLMs will help lead to a breakthrough in nuclear fusion or battery research.

Degrowth is the philosophy of poverty, and a poverty of philosophy.

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Re:My AI skeptic friends are all nuts by timdiggerm on Tuesday June 03, 2025 @08:15AM (#44169135)
Degrowth and "Maybe this uses too much electricity" are not the same thing, particularly when a nontrivial portion of US generation is fossil-fuel based.

As for the breakthroughs, maybe they will, maybe they won't; it's not much of an argument.

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Re:My AI skeptic friends are all nuts by rel_ic on Tuesday June 03, 2025 @07:56AM (#44169007)
This mindset is cancerous
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Re:My AI skeptic friends are all nuts by GuinansEyebrows on Tuesday June 03, 2025 @11:31AM (#44171119)
endless growth is the philosophy of an economic system that does not regard the long-term health of the planet and its flora and fauna. what's your point?
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