• Flying Squid
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    42 days ago

    You read all three of those links in four minutes?

    Also, irrigation creates food, which people need to survive, while AI creates nothing that people need to survive, so that’s a terrible comparison.

    • @[email protected]
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      62 days ago

      I’m already familiarized on industrial and computer usage of water. As I said, very little impact.

      Not all food is needed to survive. Any vegan would probably give a better argument on this than me. But choice of food it’s important. And choosing one food over another it’s not a matter of survival but a matter of joy, a tertiary necessity.

      Not to sound as a boomer, but if this is such a big worry for you better action may be stop eating avocados in a place where avocados don’t naturally grow.

      As I said, I live in a pretty dry place, where water cuts because of scarcity are common. Our very few super computers have not an impact on it. And supercomputers on china certainly are 100% irrelevant to our water scarcity issue.

      • @[email protected]
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        32 days ago

        I don’t know why you keep bringing up luxuries like avocados. I don’t remember the last time I ate an avocado, or a banana, or any exotic fruit for that matter.

        I somehow feel like you won’t listen to LLM criticism from me either, so it’s a disingenuous argument.

        • @[email protected]
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          22 days ago

          Because it’s the typical exotic fruit.

          If you really don’t eat anything that it’s not native to your land good for you, you are one in a million.

          What I mean is that the environment argument for being against AI doesn’t really hold. It’s just an excuse to justify the dogma.

          • @[email protected]
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            21 day ago

            Except AI centers are much much more impactful than any single decision a single person can make. Demanding perfection before assessing legitimacy of a complaint is also an excuse to justify dogma.