alt Hacker NewsMy (paranoid) unpopular take: the AI boom we’re currently experiencing is a concerted effort by the billionaires to maintain operational agency (the ability to think and do at a massive scale) once society begins to collapse due to climate change.
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Thank you for the sane responses. I’m reconsidering how much I believe this.
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This makes no sense. It takes a complex industrial society to keep that tech going. The supply chain to make GPUs would not survive even a modest disruption in the world economy. It's probably the most fragile thing we currently manufacture.
If there's an evil plot, it's goal must surely be to accelerate environmental degradation.
First we had the blockchain, now AI to consume enormous amounts of resources and distract us from what we should be investing in to make the environment healthier.
Concerted effort among the greediest people in the world all competing with each other? I find that very hard to imagine.
do you think it’s one person or a group of them that meets? design by committee? how are they getting it all done? let’s hear it!
How would that work? AI cannot run if society collapses.
Maintaining all that infrastructure and supplying spare parts is not going to work.
Also AI cannot do anything on its own. Barely anything with support from humans.