So there’s this conspiracy theory about the bourgeois being lizard people and climate change is actually them terraforming earth to be more to their liking.
I’ve never seriously considered such an absurd idea, but considering that we are at a critical time for climate change and their response is to accelerate it makes me think there may be something to this…
Destroying civilization because I can’t be bothered to copy and paste from stack overflow
The tech bro response is to say that you can’t stop innovation or pivot to fossil fuels and say “well what about them?”
or pivot to fossil fuels and say “well what about them?”
Boy I wonder where all the energy powering these data-centers is coming from. how that energy is being generated.
Sometimes I noticed they get super emotional over it and start pining nostalgia for something that still exists.
: “Hey! Fossil fuels are great they started the Industrial Revolution so we owe them big time, that’s why we must keep using them! This does not apply to trains though.”
They’d also be kind of wrong factually, because barring coal, yet still critical alongside it, what greased and fueled the industrial revolution and its commodity production was the mass-murdering of whales to the point of almost extincting every single species of whale on the planet (and properly extincting uncountable intermediate species that relied on whalefall or nutrient cycling because whales are keystone species) extracting and using their bodily compounds to make things like ‘whale oil;’ and we owe them more than we could ever give them, but least of all to not keep destroying the planet, fucking up the oceans (and making them so painfully loud it disrupts their ability to communicate and hunt and contributes to beachings), killing them with fishing bycatch and with commercial boat strikes, and non-arctic-indigenous industrial peoples who still hunt them. Which is all economics as always.
We only stopped (at least, to that level) industrial-murdering them after discovering the modern fossil fuels (petroleum et al) and realizing that it was easier to pull millions-year-dead plankton and peat and trees that got their energy condensed and liquefied because fungus hadn’t evolved to break them down and utilize it yet — than it was to find the previously-numerous-but-now-scant beings (of incredible intelligence, complex capability, compassion, and culture [even among different speices], much of which was lost to their communities forever); who also sometimes escaped or fought back and killed people and made crews have to eat each other (“Whale attack” they say. Whale self-defense).
Now we know why Kamala spent so much time at the debate talking about natural gas.
The worst thing about this is we’re going to destroy the earth to make shitty pictures and stupid nonsense articles.
I can at least understand cars and industry as they’re kinda necessary for the vast improvements to quality of life but AI is just making things more shit.
I can at least understand cars and industry as they’re kinda necessary for the vast improvements to quality of life but AI is just making things more shit.
A few credulous rubes might beg to differ if the treat printer says “I love you senpai” just convincingly enough (gotta burn that many more acres of forest!).
They’re not the problem really. I empathize with those lonely enough to seek companionship in AI.
AI wouldn’t be getting 1/10th of the support if business owners weren’t planning on using it to replace entry-level jobs, that’s why we’re burning the forests down.
Definitely, and take this from someone trying to escape the reserve army of labor.
You’d think America, where work is sacred, it would be an act of blasphemy for an employer to abolish work in certain levels. But no, it’s “innovation” and no one cares that entry-level jobs are a thing of a past.
They’re not the problem really. I empathize with those lonely enough to seek companionship in AI.
I would be more sympathetic for that desire if it wasn’t so often presented in a contempt-for-living-beings format, as is often the case, including on this site sometimes. That misanthropic sentiment isnt new, but the treat printers have galvanized it.
