Clear answer for me - everything else wins over pointless "AI"
this post was submitted on 22 Jun 2026
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Making collages out of human excrement wins over pointless "AI" for me.
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Even the hyperloop?
Anything that makes rich people look stupid and blow money is good, yes.
So you're proAI or what? 😉
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Shit. You got me with that.
But I'm more pro-OceanGate.
I'm pretty sure "squish" is the exact opposite of "blow"
Wait fuck.
Well, thought more of the better stuff like nature, not Musk's brainfarts
Easiest choice of my life
Don't threaten me with a good time.
Right? Talk about not being able to read the room.
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.
How else do you think they will get a one world government? Cause the problems, depopulate the “undesirables”, cause conflict, and offer a solution to fix what you have created. Not a hard concept. The only way people will accept a totalitarian techno-fascist one world government is with an overwhelming catastrophe.
Lol easy choice
So no AI then, eh! Eh?
Hmmmmm lower electric bills for our countries electorate OR giant buildings they hate that pollute their water, give them ill health from noise pollution, and take their jobs?
I'd pay good money to rid the world of AI
Not true at all. AI can and should be running on renewables alone.
Yes, Euria and many others in Europa are already doing it.
The Problem is not AI but how Datacenters are used in USA.
And closed-loop cooling. But then it will still emit heat, which should be captured in a downstream process.
Damn I don't know, let me ask chatgpt.
They said they'd love me more if I syntax error input new token so that's what I live by
I mean, we must choose. Just not in favor of slopcenters burning through resources for highly dubious advantages.
Cool, fuck off then.
Climate. We don't need AI, we need people with decent jobs and fair wages. Plant trees, create preserved areas and lets stop destroying our collective home.
I mean that's an easy choice, but also no fucking way. Rich pricks would pay for data centers even if they had to run them exclusively off renewables. This is a bluff.
They just say it. 🫴
False dichotomy
Yeah we can have a global climate disaster without AI too dudes. We have options [jazz hands emoji dot png]
politico
ewww
I want newer, cleaner, superior technology made with the help of AI to lessen, stop or even reverse Climate Change.
Also my Room is to damn hot! XD
How is a token predictor that can only regurgitate old ideas going to invent something new?
I asked ai to refute this argument, but if you say these false things today, more than 4 year after the chatgpt moment then im probably wasting our time anyway.
No we don't. I'm pretty sure we'll be able to miss all the climate goals even if we ban data centres.
Most probably. But not by such a high margin. The energy consumption of datacenters is completely insane.
Its not completely Insane for Datacenters or Supercomputers in Europa. Also our Supercomputers are always first in Green500, unlike USAs!
I just wish we could convince tptb into building that much grid capacity in renewables. For the citizenry. Not for buisness.
I mean I'm aware of a few projects, but like nothing on datacenter scale
And if it's not AI it's the next hype. We need to make a stand.
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