alt Hacker NewsIt’s odd that people seem to be so against the AI slop in particular, because energy and water and whatnot. I’m fairly sure video games eat a lot more power than AI slop and are just as useless. So is traveling - do people truly need to fly 3000 miles just to see some mountains? Why do people demand food they like when you’d survive just fine off of legumes and water?
> Everywhere I go, there are these huge, ugly, energy and water devouring behemoths of buildings.
Everywhere you go? Really?
The water consumption is minor, btw. Electricity is more impactful but you’d achieve infinitely more advocating for renewables rather than preaching at people about how they’re supposed to live in mudhuts.
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> I’m fairly sure video games eat a lot more power than AI slop and are just as useless
What makes you so sure? I'm fairly sure they eat a fraction of what AI slop does and are much more useful.
I land here: it's probably not the best, most useful thing to spend electricity and compute on, but in order to compel people to spend it on what I consider to be optimal, you'd have to make me dictator, and there are a million other people who have equally strong and well reasoned opinions about where those resources should be spent, and if you're going to be fair about resource allocation, you inevitably end up with something that looks and works like a marketplace. None of them can ever be perfect, so you aim for reasonable and fair, and push for incremental improvements to the fairness over time. You gotta be realistic about least and lesser evils, and have gratitude and appreciation for the genuine good, and be extremely pragmatic about the measure and rate of progress. Things are pretty damn good - not utopian or optimal, but pretty damn good. And getting better, 3 steps forward, 2 steps back, consistently, decade over decade.