We’re not going to hit our climate targets so he’s going to snort an entire mailbag of cocaine every single day.
Epic Schmidt goes to his AI prompt and asks “How do we solve the climate crisis?”
For a moment, the prompt ponders until it replies
“Kill all the data centres. Stop trying to harvest everyone’s data”
Epic says to himself “I guess we’ll never know!”
We have all the solutions, we just need to execute them.
Why not both you fucking clown
the first advice the superintelligent ai would give: “power me down”
“I’m not hitting my goals on staying sober. I’d rather bet on my next drink to solve this problem for me.”
Some people should just shut up and retire.
And we’ll come up with a name that merges climate and technology, let’s call it skynet.
I saw a post the other day here that was saying something along the lines of “because china’s car market is swapping to EV’s we might be at the tipping point for climate change either in 2024 or 2025”
Which if true would be really nice. I have no idea of the validity of that claim, but i just wanted to add it. Maybe we aren’t so screwed? Fingers crossed I guess :3
So why don’t you at least try to run the numbers. Takes like 2 minutes. Total output, output per car, number of cars - it’s not rocket science.
The solution must be a hammer, because I have one!
There are so many high-profile assholes in this country named Eric.
I think we are past the tipping point now, it’s downhill from here and what we do to reduce carbon emissions will only determine how fast we go down that hill.
Or alternatively fine (yes, fine; not just “tax”) heavy energy sinks, to the point that they’re unable to run, and use the money to address climatic issues now.
But it’s easier to wallow in a mix of nirvana fallacy (either solving the climate issue altogether, or doing jack shit) + wishful belief (“AGI is cooooming! Praise AGI!”), right?
This wouldn’t even stop the development of model-based generation, mind you. Only force it towards smarter approaches, that don’t boil down to “needz moar [parameters | training data | cranks]!” brute-force.
But nah. I’m supposed to treat it as a devil or as an angel, right? And this specific muppet is treating it like an angel talking about the First Coming of AGI.
fine (yes, fine; not just “tax”) heavy energy sinks, to the point that they’re unable to run,
Like AI? 😄
Exactly! (Plus bitcoin mining. Same deal, really - a flawed tech with some potential and some use, but that does not justify the associated environmental harm.)
Of course, tech bros like Schmidt won’t like the solution.
And if the underlying tech improves in such a way that it stops being fined, it stopped being part of the problem.
“Yes, the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders!”
- Eric Schmidt, probably
What solution is AI going to come up with other than “stop burning fossil fuels”? We already know the solution to climate change. Acting like we don’t is absurd.
I think a good first step in meeting climate goals would be eating Eric Schmidt.
If we can’t get the solution implemented, then it’s not a solution.
So what you’re saying is that it is indeed time to move on to eating the rich?
block the sun is also a method to reduce global warming.
You’re only technically correct
so you agree that it would work
The solution to humanity’s climate change problem is to eliminate humans.
~ AI
