Baetylraig7

The same people that want to weaken encryption, demand upload filters and try to make search engines pay for links to news sites, spending 145 billion euros on "digital projects". Couldn't they come up with cheaper way to produce hot air?

You first have to develop a sleeping problem, then this works like a charm. Just do the opposite of what they tell you to do for a better sleep, like don't use electronic devices in bed.

Or like, you know, don't, because its stupid.

You are missing the entire point of why this is a horrible thing to begin with! They have to develop new encryption circumvention technology for this one surveillance which weakens encryption for everyone using the encryption technology.

Its exactly like if you were to force the creator of PGP to build a backdoored version of PGP with the right windows signatures or something. You could just say, "it will only be for new emails for the specific mailbox, as the rest are already encrypted", but then you are missing the point entirely.

BTW germany is currently in the process of shoving a new law though the EU which will effectively destroy all encrypted services in europe (by means of forcing backdoors/secondary keys). Just for context.

How exactly is the environmental impact of tech becoming more "direct and mainstream" [citation needed]?

Data centers around the world account only for a tiny fraction of electricity consumption or carbon emissions. Do you even account for the reduced car and air travel due to remote working and online shopping?

How are advanced few-shot learners like GPT-3 even remotely a problem, training less models is somehow worse? Do they even know what they are taking about?

Its all very confusing, but a lot of the work done by grievance studies becomes immediately easier to understand once you realize they are arguing in bad faith.