Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt said that AI is advancing so fast, and requires so much energy, that there is no way to keep up with climate goals.
  • jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de
    57·
    2 months ago

    “We should all max out and default on 1 billion credit cards because we’ll never pay out all debts”. Maybe if we frame it that way the religious capitalists will get it.

  • themeatbridge@lemmy.world
    51·
    2 months ago

    There’s a danger when you advocate abandoning all hope of survival and you haven’t yet figured out immortality for yourself.

    • Krauerking@lemy.lol
      7·
      2 months ago

      What? But that’s what the bunker in the remote island is for! And the security guards with shock/bomb collars. For living forever right?

      I mean Biden just rushed a mad scientist a government position to replace brains slowly with fetal stem cells to end aging. And god I wish I was making up any of that.
      (Inspired by west world to replace his whole body??)

      They are hoping to drag this out long enough to figure it out.

  • orcrist@lemm.ee
    50·
    2 months ago

    If we’re all f***** anyway, I think that justifies a lot of bad behavior. Why don’t people burn his house and company to the ground tomorrow? After all, law and order won’t matter when the environment goes to hell.

  • immutable@lemm.ee
    29·
    2 months ago

    Fun fact about Eric Schmidt: he’s a moron

    And you might be thinking, well yea, I can read the headline. But that’s not even what I’m talking about.

    Inside google a bunch of engineers wanted to make chrome, you know that browser everyone uses and gives google an even more unfair strategic advantage. They literally had to hide this effort from Eric Schmidt because he’s a bean counting moron. He has negative strategic vision and would have killed the project.

    Listening to this man prognosticate about anything is pointless. This is a man leading google that couldn’t see the value in owning the browser platform, he might be the dumbest person on earth.

    • november@lemmy.vgEnglish
      8·
      2 months ago

      You mean this guy could have saved us from Google’s browser monopoly? The world could have been so different…

  • kibiz0r@midwest.socialEnglish
    27·
    2 months ago

    Had a planet full of resources, and thousands of years of rich and interesting cultural development.

    Decided to spend all the resources grinding all that culture into a bland paste.

    Is… is humanity a shitpost?

  • TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee
    14·
    2 months ago

    The most overvalued market is the tech market. The value of all of those cards and circuits are maintained purely through the existence of key monopolies in their production. It’s also the one generation the most unrecycable shit, at least not without consequences to the environment. And now they want to build AI data centers so we can finish making the world warm enough that it is not even possible to run AI data centers due to climate conditions. Brilliant.

  • JaggedRobotPubes@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    2 months ago

    That would make sense if we were all going to blink out of existence*, but we’re going to still be here, with raisable and lowerable levels of suffering.

    “My toe is already stubbed, no reason not to cut both my legs off”

    *actually no it wouldn’t because AI is still a massive threat even without the climate getting worse from it.

  • mojofrododojo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    2 months ago

    “we gotta find SOMETHING, SOMEWHERE, SOMEHOW to justify all this AI garbage or it’s gonna tank the company.”