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Re:Anthropic strikes $3.4B deal to generate gas-fired power ... by ragequittah on Sunday November 08, 2026 @11:23PM (#50421056)
The argument (not sure I agree with it, but I also am not seeing many alternatives that make any sense) is that the world is already on fire, nobody is working to even slow the fire down really, and we're basically already doomed so as a hail Mary maybe AI can cause a technology boom that can help us fix it.

It is a somewhat coherent argument IMO. Humans are way too greedy and focused on the next financial quarter/unsustainable growth to ever put the fire out without some kind of sea change.

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Re:Anthropic strikes $3.4B deal to generate gas-fired power ... by boothby on Monday November 09, 2026 @11:15AM (#50427578)
And if the technology says "stop with the carbon emissions, everything from data centres to gas-guzzling personal vehicles to cattle farming" are we as a people going to act? Or are we just going to accelerate our current growth trajectory and use AI for ever further advancement in brainslop? Because I know what "the market" wants, and it ain’t sustainability.
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