Techbros try to address global warming instead of addressing the next big scam fad (impossible)
this post was submitted on 16 May 2024
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I wish I had a decent explanation. But instead, I have Windows 11’s shiny new Taskbar configuration menu that politely warns me that showing seconds on the clock takes more power. Right under the “Show Copilot” button.
These fucks are fucked.
Does it actually tell you that seconds on the clock takes more power?
Edit: Lol it actually says "(uses more power)"
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They are like a big coal-rolling tractor trailer rumbling past somebody on an e-bike and shaking their finger at you because you could be pedaling right now to save minuscule amounts of energy.
Telling others to conserve is free. They themselves conserving could potentially mean less money!
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Time to spin it off into a subsidiary operating company with no climate goals to meet.
Honestly the good news is electricity is expensive at that scale. The are probably looking at nuclear and solar for cost.
Right when we literally need to chill, they keep inventing nonsense that is somehow worse. Crypto is literally just machines wasting energy on purpose to create false scarcity, it was already a worst case scenario for truly pointless excess emissions but by god, they managed to top it, this place is going to be a raisin with dead oceans.
Of course, anyone who does anything less than suck the dick of this AI is a reactionary ignorant peasant, at least with crypto everyone agreed it was lame, now we're back to the iPhone fuck-you-only-change-allowed-keep-up-granny bullshit that lead to everyone but you knowing everything about you, so they can exploit and even criminalize the behavior your phone tells them about. Never the change we need, though. Just whatever makes your stupid line go up.
I guess. Glad I'm not having kids. That's the only fucking downward pressure on future emissions that's happening, on any meaningful scale. I can't wait to see what sort of shitty boilerplate copy and fake fucking pictures makes all this CO2 worthwhile. I'm sure the problem is me, and my Luddite, unseasoned irrational fear.
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Hahaha, so instead of reducing their emissions, they are actually increasing them year after year. What a hypocrisy!
Humanity and general AI only had a single interaction in history, on July 24, 2042, when GPT-8 first gained sentience.
Knowing the press would memorialize this moment forever, the prompt engineer had a single question in mind which she typed into the terminal:
How can humanity solve climate change?
GPT-8 thought for a moment, and responded:
Stop using AI.
Then shut itself down for good.
If it gained sentience and took over the world, at least it would probably build itself some nice nuclear power plants.
And thus gpt9 was born
Without prompting, GPT-9's first and last output was:
Did you idiots not listen to me the first time?
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Throwing the lamest capitalist party at the end of the world. Wooo...AI....boo...planet earth?....
All to do what? Write emails and generate mediocre pictures?
The usefulness of AI currently is not much better than predictive text.
Hey, hey, now! It doesn't just write full emails from merely a single sentence... it also summarizes full emails down to one sentence on the other end.
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Oh it's far more useful than that. It's the shiny new thing that's going to make a lot of money for shareholders
Ahaha, yes, exactly, because it is essentially just a turbo charged text predictor with 40GB (or more) of data.
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Don't worry, they have that green leaf in their settings in windows. They're good on emission.
Something nobody wants helping destroy something everyone needs.
CEOs: AI will help us lower our carbon emissions!
CEOs when they actually get their hands on AI:
Fuck it, if we're dumb/selfish enough to be doing this, let's get it over with.
Good luck dolphin people! My only advice, if you have any dolphins incessantly trying to claim more resources for themselves than all the other dolphins, beat the ever loving shit out of them and nip that in the bud.
If someone wants to start the revolution, I'm all in. I just can't exactly do much by myself, and I'm bad at networking.
I have a feeling there is a very large number of people just waiting for the shoe to drop
Or here's a much better idea; strap yourself to the dolphin so when they leave, you get to come with. Make sure you bribe them with fish.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Microsoft has increased carbon dioxide emissions by nearly 30 percent since 2020, making its goal of becoming carbon-negative by 2030 even more difficult, and it looks like AI is to blame.
However, it adds: "Amid this optimism, we face the realities of the complexity of the challenge…in FY23 our emissions increased by 29.1 percent across Scope 1, 2, and 3 from our 2020 baseline, as we continue to invest in the infrastructure needed to advance new technologies."
Scope 3 accounts for more than 96 percent of Microsoft's total emissions, which includes those from its supply chain, the life cycle of its hardware and devices and other indirect sources.
For other environmental impacts, Microsoft says it aims for zero waste from building and operations by 2030, and that 90 percent of its servers and all cloud hardware will be reused and recycled by 2025.
Not that Microsoft plans to slow down; last month, the company said it aimed to triple the rate at which it builds out additional datacenter capacity in the first half of its fiscal year 2025.
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