• GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world
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    If only all the billions spent on AI would have been spent on tackling climate protection, we would have clean energy and a ton of new jobs.

    Whereas AI is doing the opposite, destroying the planet and taking jobs.

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      At this point we don’t even need to spend billions subsidizing green energy; it’s already cheaper than fossil fuels on the free market. We’re now subsidizing bad shit out of sheer hate and suicidal contrarianism for contrarianism’s sake.

      (And blatant corruption and graft. That’s a big reason for the otherwise literally clinically insane fossil fuel subsidies, too.)

      • rumschlumpel@feddit.org
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        24 hours ago

        I’d say corruption and grift is the actual why, “sheer hate and suicidal contrarianism for contrarianism’s sake” is somehow how it’s successfully sold to the masses.

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      21 hours ago

      Yeah but AI is aiming at removing workers… So more money for them !

      Well worth destroying the world !

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      20 hours ago

      You can’t recharge a tank on a battle field. Fossil fuels must exist until the conflict between the multipolar world and the rule based world is settled. Bonus points for drying up Iran and opening the northern shipping routes. Also overall, a warmer earth should create more rain.