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Microsoft deal would reopen Three Mile Island nuclear plant to power AI
(www.washingtonpost.com)
this post was submitted on 20 Sep 2024
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Where's the one for gamers. It's the same GPU after all.
There's also the energy usage around obsessively gripe-posting about AI to consider.
This is why we need a watts-used-per-unit-of-entertainment scale going so we can determine a treat hierarchy.
Reaching hard to run interference for those treat printers again, aren't you?
The billionaires that own the most environmentally devastating data centers and the techbro startups that keep propping up new ones will probably manage just fine without your stanning for them.
Little known fact: If one can Musk-post exactly ten thousand times, it results in an insta-kill, freeing the denizens of earth from his tyrannical grasp once and for all.
Obsessing about my posts in a metagamey concern trolling way is still obsessing, just with less honesty and integrity.
Scroll up homie, you replied to me (and edited your comments after posting as usual which is considered poor forum etiquette tsk tsk).
"Homie," concern trolling in defense of treat printers and baiting me seems to be the sum of your post history.
You already have the tech inevitabilism beliefs of a typical redditor (VR boardrooms everywhere, everyone wearing AR glasses, maybe even NFTs being the old hits that you probably also latched on to before) and now you're doing the civility concern trolling attempts of a typical redditor too.
Are you even a leftist? Proselytizing for billionaire tech grifts under "stop criticizing the ruling class and its excesses, it's going to happen anyway" sophistry doesn't seem like it.
Leftism is obsessively AI and musk posting as if it were a full time job, and the more you do that the more leftist you are.
Remind the people why you had to take like a year off from posting (during which time the site was noticeably less annoying). Was it because you're too confrontational and were getting into to many heated arguments with people about stupid shit?
Do you have anything else to say but hypocritical obsessive concern trolling in defense of treat printers?
Honestly, it's fascinating how committed you are to misinterpreting my intentions. I criticize obsessive AI griping not because I'm enchanted by techbro promises or "stanning for billionaires," as you so colorfully put it. Rather, I'm urging a balanced perspective; it's entirely possible to scrutinize the energy usage of various technologies—including gaming—without resorting to hyperbolic doomsaying or personal attacks.
You ask if I'm a leftist, as if one's entire political alignment could be judged by their stance on a specific facet of technology. Engaging critically with technology doesn't equate to blind support of its most excessive implementations.
Let's use this platform to foster constructive debate, not sanctimonious sniping. We're all here because we give a damn about the world and its future, right? Let's not lose sight of that common ground.
Your Redditisms are showing once again, right out of the starting gate.
Right back at you. If you weren't so knee-jerk ready to jump into more concern trolling whenever the treat printers and how they're used are criticized, you'd have noticed by now that I had long establised that LLMs could be useful tools, but at present, they're primarily used in wasteful, destructive, and precarity-increasing ways.
Yes, and I'm asking again, because so far all I've seen from you is hypocritically obsessive "you seem obsessed about billionaires doing bad things" concern trolling posting and reactive apologia in defense of their latest grifts as if that's somehow uncalled for on a leftist shitposting forum.
You've gone way too far for that already. Dial back your own bullshit first.
Stop trying to hush people on a leftist shitposting forum for posting in ways you don't approve of. At this point I can't help wonder if you own a Tesla, considering how often you whine about me posting
's latest clown antics.
yeah, I'm gonna just drop "disengage" again and next time maybe just don't reply to my comments please?
It's probably still a problem, but I think a lot more overall entertainment value comes out of the same amount of electricity use and carbon waste in bideo bames than in hitting a prompt button over and over again to get a satisfactory cyberpunkerino waifu to go with the hundreds to thousands already in the spank bank folder.
I don't think Microsoft is trying to reopen a power plant because theres some sort of modernist gooning wave happening, but I could be wrong.
It is a small part of it, but the larger part of it is primarily coming from expansions of the corporate surveillance state and even more data collection, not like that's better.