alt Hacker NewsHow about instead of sewing FUD and justifying one evil by pointing at others, we actually gave a damn about the world we’re creating.
People act like doing things that are good for the environment is inherently lacking in economic value. My Dad’s environmental consulting business put me through college, while doing good things for the environment and people, and that is really small scale stuff. And his primary customer was a bank wishing to avoid lending on contaminated sites.
There could absolutely be massive money to be made in doing good things for the environment, it is the people making money doing bad things for the environment who do their damndest to keep grasp on the wheel and subvert any attempt to make doing good things for the environment economically advantageous.
These people are virtually selling their children’s future for a few extra bucks today. The earth is going to be around for a long time yet. We should care about our children, grandchildren and so on.
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Not sure why these bottom ones were downvoted. Look I like AI a lot. I'm using it to build the companies I dreamed about 5 years ago but didn't have time. Now I have a $20 codex account and have burned through 800 million tokens in a month (thanks Tibo for the resets!).
But just because I like AI doesn't mean I need to go with the crowd and downvote anything that threatens my livelihood. We can think of solutions instead of just reacting all the time.
We've gone so far past the "man plants tree whose shade he will never sit under" _almost_ universally. It's hard to see a way back, I know I'm doing my part, helping my struggling community/state. But it's hard work that's badly renumerated.
Maybe if we structured our economics around long term plans we wouldn't have such a mess.