This is both accurate and understating the issue. People can’t be downright hostile to new ideas even if it makes their life easier.

A billion people in the world are vegetarians, and yet 15% of the world’s energy is going to Meat production. They didn’t ask for meat production but there it is.

You also misunderstand what “push to exist” really boils down to. AI is being used by companies because it saves them money, people are buying the products from these companies. They could choose more expensive options that do not use AI, but they are not actually doing that.

By that same logic, people aren’t responsible for the transportation and energy use for any industry, but without customers those industries would not exist and therefore their energy use wouldn’t happen.

That’s why it’s individual responsibility that is causing this disaster, and people putting their head in the sand and blaming billionaires does not help that.

It’s in my comment history. Feel free to pretend I didn’t do it, but it doesn’t change reality.

Based on the last time I did the math a few months ago, and the projections of AI datacenter builds, they’re expected to reach maybe 0.5% of total global energy use by 2030. HALF OF A PERCENT.

I don’t know how even spreading that out matters at all. It’s simply not a concern we should be focusing on until we solve things like meat production (15% of global energy use), transportation (something like 20% of global use), and more efficiency on systems like home and building heating (another 20-25%).

Go do the math on Datacenter energy use. How much of Global Energy use do they account for (include all datacenters even).

I’ve done that math. It’s fucking nothing at the scale of total human use. They are not the issue.

Everyone can change if pushed hard enough. Would you just die if a natural disaster wiped out your entire city/state and you were forced to relocate elsewhere? No, you would not. So it’s clearly possible.

Are you kidding me? This was a University Prof, doing a proper study, published in the Cambridge University Press, and involving 1700 participants.

Did you not even bother to look up the source before jumping down my throat?

This is even further evidence of why we’re fucking doomed. Your feelings about this headline override any reasonability you have to the point where you won’t even look at the source.

What math? Nobody else has posted math on my comments except me.

People down voting a study. Hilarious.

Feels over reals. We’re fucking doomed.

The world will burn until people realize that simply blaming others does not fix the issue.

That article is trash. It implies that the carbon emitted by the companies they own is caused by the billionaires.

Amazon’s carbon use is from the people buying shit, not from bezos himself.

You think bezos is somehow responsible for the plane emissions to fly that piece of shit plastic toy from China to your house?

Give your head a shake.

Go ahead, but it won’t matter. As I said, they don’t make up the bulk of the pollution.

It’s not. A billionaire could have 50,000x the use of the average and it still would be tiny. There are only about 4000 billionaires in the world.

4000 x 50000 = 200 million people worth

They would have to each be using 2 million times the average to even be half of the world usage.

Objectively they are not doing that.

Either change the local policies around transportation through local government, or move somewhere more sustainable.

You choose where you live, and your participation your local politics and economy.

People say they don’t have a choice, but people move away for a better life all the time.

I think you miscalculate their footprint.

And even if someone forces your local electrical production to use fossil fuels there are still ways you can massively reduce your footprint both by saving money (not using it) and by replacing it with your own options by spending more (energy collectives, your own solar panels, etc.)

Even so, Electricity is not the largest share of energy use in the world, it’s only around 30%. Most of it is direct use in industry, heavily in agriculture and transportation.

As I said before, eating less meat will save a massive amount of energy use.

Buying less shit also helps.

I have said this before, and I’ll say it again, it’s not the billionaires that are the problem. It’s regular people making choices. Choosing the cheap or easy option instead of the environmentally friendly option.

The billionaires are bad, don’t get me wrong, eat them for all I care, but their total environmental footprint is small in the context of the consumption of the larger population of this planet.

We all need to take responsibility for our individual choices if we want to have any impact in the world.

That doesn’t mean a riot, it means eating less meat, taking more efficient transportation options, and getting rid of suburbs.

Improving those three things would change the world.

Edit: the number of people who don’t want to take responsibility for their own actions because it’s easier to blame others is the reason the world will burn.

Meshtastic is worth taking a peek and a play at. HAM radio-esque text messages, but without the license requirements.

It’s not manufactured scarcity, it’s just scarcity that the market can’t (or won’t risk) reacting to quickly.

It costs hundreds of billions and multiple years to build out the capacity to make these chips at scale, and decades to earn back that investment on each plant. If the companies think it’s going to be a short term thing, they won’t build enough new plants because that would risk being over-supplied and not being able to recoup the investment. If they think it’s going to be a long term thing, they will start building. They are clearly building some new capacity, so they must think it’s not entirely a short term thing. However, they won’t build as much as possible, because that risks oversupplying if too much gets built and the demand shifts.

LLMs could shift to an entirely new tech that doesn’t rely on these chips in 5 years, and then they’d be fucked.

All it takes is one crazy ass dude or dudette to build out a more efficient biological processor or something and then we’re all going to be growing AI brains in jars to do our work for us.

Side note, orientated is an unnecessary conjugation of oriented.

Please just use oriented.

If masturbation completely replaced sex, human history wouldn’t exist because we wouldn’t have reproduced like we did.

Masturbation is like eating a granola bar to replace a meal. Works fine to get by, but damn does it suck if that’s the only option to keep going.