alt Hacker News1. "if you can't convince yourself by playing anecdotically" is NOT "facts"
2. it's not because the US is incredibly bad at energy spending in AC that it somehow justifies the fact that we would add another, mostly unnecessary, polluting source, even if it's slightly lower. ACs have existed for decades. AI has been exploding for a few years, so we can definitely see it go way, way past the AC usage
also the idea is of "accelerationnism". Why do we need all this tech? What good does it make to have 10 more silly slop AI videos and disinformation campaigns during election? Just so that antirez can be a little bit faster at doing his code... that's not what the world is about.
Our world should be about humans, connecting together (more slowly, not "faster"), about having meaningful work, and caring about planetary resources
The exact opposite of what capitalistic accelerationism / AI is trying to sell us
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This is obviously a collision between our human culture and the machine culture, and on the surface its intent is evil, as many have guessed already. But what it also does is it separates the two sides cleanly, as they want to pursue different and wildly incompatible futures. Some want to herd sheep, others want to unite with tech, and the two can't live under one sky. The AI wedge is a necessity in this sense.
If you can solve "measure programming productivity with data" you'll have cracked one of the hardest problems in our industry.
> Why do we need all this tech?
Slightly odd question to be asking here on Hacker News!