Can a similar site be done about saving the Bitcoin? Numbers should be a bit more extreme there, and for longer time.
AI Is Facing a Crisis
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#32There are links to an environmental campaign group's site so not actually satire, more of a badly thought out campaign idea.
It calls itself a satire if you find the right page. It's valid to use satire for environmentalism.
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#33And it is flagged.
Yeah wonder why that is... There is a serious group of University of Toronto researchers behind this project. I thought it was pretty cool!
Edit: Genuinely wondering why, I thought it was a good opportunity to talk about some of the less advertised sides of AI.
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#34As much as I love a good satire, my experience with the Internet makes me worry that a group of true believers are going to latch onto this campaign and treat it as real, and people playing along with the satire will just be contributing to them.
>As much as I love a good satire, Are you sure it is satire?
Yes. One of the about pages calls it satire.
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#35I've wondered this for a while, why does AI use so much water? Are companies just sending the output of their liquid cooling into the drain? Most computers I've seen use a closed loop and consume no water past the original filling up
There are closed-loop datacenters, but the hyperscalers now use evaporation chimneys. Google used ~21bn litres of water in 2023-24.
Doesn't that fall back down again as fresh rainwater?
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#36I've wondered this for a while, why does AI use so much water? Are companies just sending the output of their liquid cooling into the drain? Most computers I've seen use a closed loop and consume no water past the original filling up
> Are companies just sending the output of their liquid cooling into the drain?
basically yes. Closed loop systems require more energy and are more expensive investments. The main concern for data centers is Total Energy / Energy Compute.
There was a good talk about this at 37C3 https://media.ccc.de/v/37c3-11796-energy_consumption_of_data...
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#37Go after computer games instead. There are millions of gamers around the world wasting electricity just for fun. You could generate several images and pages of text with the energy it takes to run a modern game for just a few seconds.
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#38As much as I love a good satire, my experience with the Internet makes me worry that a group of true believers are going to latch onto this campaign and treat it as real, and people playing along with the satire will just be contributing to them.
Literally just a few days ago there was the Ai 2027 posted here that was absurd. BTW, there's an actual researches that made a LinkedIn post about that Ai 2027 article https://www.linkedin.com/posts/timnit-gebru-7b3b407_ive-just...
> Literally just a few days ago there was the Ai 2027 posted here that was absurd. BTW, there's an actual researches that made a LinkedIn post about that Ai 2027 article https://www.linkedin.com/posts/timnit-gebru-7b3b407_ive-just...
Is that the right link? It seems mainly randing about Scott Alexander being a eugenicist and Rationalists.
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#40Some here seem to think this is satire. Well, Sam Altman want us all to funnel 7 trillions of $ for AI, so, we[0] will have to make some sacrifices to satisfy his grand vision.
[0]common folks, because of course you don't want to tax or stop subsidizing the "job creators" (i.e. rich people).