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It isn't worth it (lemmy.world)
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[-] alienanimals@lemmy.world 21 points 3 months ago

This is a strawman argument. AI is a tool. Like any tool, it's used for negative things and positive things. Focusing on just the negative is disingenuous at best. And focusing on AI's climate impact while completely ignoring the big picture is asinine (the oil industry knew they were the primary cause of climate change more than 60 years ago).

AI has many positive use-cases yet they are completely ignored by people who lack logic and rationality.

AI is helping physicists speed up experiments into supernovae to better understand the universe.

AI is helping doctors to expedite cancer screening rates.

AI is powering robots that can do the dishes.

AI is also helping to catch illegal fishing, tackle human trafficking, and track diseases.

[-] CompostMaterial@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

If all fossil fuel power plants were converted to nuclear then tech power consumption wouldn't even matter. Again, it was the oil industry that railroaded nuclear power as being unsafe.

[-] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 months ago

Do you have a proposed solution for nuclear waste?

[-] CompostMaterial@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

I do. The same thing we have been doing with it this entire time storing it in underground bunkers. Unlike the propaganda, the waste from nuclear is rather small and unlike pollution from fossil fuel plants, it is easily contained however much longer living. The benefit still out weigh the cost of managing disposal. The reality is that there is plenty of uninhabited land on the planet where nuclear waste can be stored and isolated for thousands of years. One day, hopefully, we will have fusion power which won't generate waste. And perhaps, someday we will also figure out how to permanently disposal of the nuclear waste. In the mean time, storage is a fine solution that far out weighs polluting the atmosphere with burning things.

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