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Well, sure, but when everyone loses their fucking minds about the tiniest thing, that even requires us to buy all the lies from billionaires about how much the build out will be, while having never done anything about the biggest thing they could personally change, it starts sounding mightily hypocritical.
It seems like the personal responsibility to boycott polluting and unnecessary industries is limited to whatever doesn't require any personal effort from the person speaking.
Napkin math:
That's the thing we're even attacking random strangers online for. The thing that we pretend is going to bring about the end times. But sure, veganism is the extreme position.....
By the way, what other resources are we saving?
More than one thing can be bad.
Why don't we do both? Less AI, Less Meat
Also, I'm not American, don't insult me by assuming I'm one
Or, just eat less meat and you can still have AI
or have double meat and no ai.
Bad for heart health, unless it's chicken which already has much lower emissions in the first place
AI is bad for your brain and society, so there's that.
AI is great for society. Just because it's still in its early years doesn't mean we won't have better uses for it later.
Sure, just handwave the damage and fast forward a century.
That's the only way we can get out of having to do boring, repetitive jobs literately forever until the end of time.
Yeah such as (checks notes) Art, Music, Writing and joy, so we can (checks notes) be the condom between Claude and Production, be a babysitter for a stupid AI, and have our livelihoods destroyed.
I love that
Not everyone likes AI art or music. I have no qualms about AI email spam. I am cheering for the "corporate email marketing" team to be eliminated as a position
Well yeah, that's cause you're a shill with no sense of taste and bad opinions
Ah, you're just a dipshit, fair