Tech sector says only carbon-emitting gas plants are reliable enough today to power the EU’s AI goals.
  • HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.orgOPEnglish
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    5 days ago

    What I find interesting is that a lot of these changes which are attributed to the purportedly “inevitable” changes associated with AI (or partly with its not-adoption), are real consequences of climate change.

    • loss of employment? Check.
    • profound change to living conditions? Check.
    • loss of labour productivity - including knowledge work? Check.
    • threathening the stability of the world-wide financial system? Check.
    • increasing likelihood of war? Check.
    • threathening even the continuity of human civilization? Check.
    • threathening the capability to compete on national scales if the change is not reponded to swiftly by governments? Check.
    • Correlated with obscene amounts of wealth concentration, impoverishing the huge majority of people, and disintegrating societies? Check.

    It’s as if AI is used as a distraction. Like the “accusation in a mirror” pattern.

    • AbsolutelyClawless@piefed.socialEnglish
      3·
      4 days ago

      What I find most damning isn’t that the mentally ill ruling class doesn’t care about us peasants. It’s their utter disregard for the future of their own offspring. Why the fuck are these people bringing new life to the planet they’re actively racing to destroy? Genuinely mind-boggling.

      • HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.orgOPEnglish
        2·
        4 days ago

        It’s their utter disregard for the future of their own offspring.

        Also disregard for our living planet and all life on it. Which is, take note, the only place we know in the universe that life exists there.

        It is not only a cult - it is a death cult.

        • AbsolutelyClawless@piefed.socialEnglish
          2·
          4 days ago

          I actually don’t find that surprising as much. They will be dead by the time the worst shit hits the fan. Right now their money can still buy them comfort, so all they care about is their sick little games. However, their children and grandchildren will be cooking like the rest of us.

          • HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.orgOPEnglish
            1·
            4 days ago

            They will be dead by the time the worst shit hits the fan.

            I am not so sure about that one. Things are already degrading pretty fast.