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Meanwhile sam altman is going to TSMC and telling them they need $7T worth of new factories to produce chips to support the amount of processors "Open"AI needs. Which is an insane amount of misspent resources, obviously, to solve exactly < 0.0% of the world's real problems.
And the TSMC execs scoffed at him and started calling him "Podcasting Bro"
Thats like 5 or more percent of the global GDP. More than the total assets of JPM bank. Mans can't be arsed to put near that much for this planets survival but they'd put it into that? I mean I won't be surprised if they considered but...
Building Deep Thought to solve the climate crisis only for it to come back and tell you that the solution is to waste fewer resources on fancy computers.
It would probably tell em the answer is 42 and tell em they fucked up
We do that all the time, but maybe it'll be more persuasive coming from one of their own computers?
I mean, I have a preferred solution and it ain't an AI super consciousness.
Roko's Basilisk is just Pascal's Wager for secular atheist euphoric types, yeah. They've reinvented Christianity with Silicone Valley characteristics.
Also goddammit I just lost The Game.
Functionalism and its consequences etc.
"During one meeting, a Japanese official laughed when OpenAI said it was seeking 5 gigawatts of electrical power, about a thousand times the power that an average data center consumes, a person familiar with the meeting said." Gigawatts
Thats the consumption per year of countries like Qatar. You can't be serious. Them again they probably already use as much energy as some first world countries.
Edit hold on..... Its waaaaaaaay more than that. Like 20 new zealands 
Lol glad they're smart enough to not fall to the hype. Imagine making like 5-10% of world gdp into capital investments because some guy said his friends might buy the product eventually. Like how many chips would you need to break even?