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Is anybody else bored of talking about AI?
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#112Earlier quoted context omitted.
AI is one of the causes that climate change is accelerating, which is another in a long list of reasons to hate it.
Im not sure I follow. AI barely consumes energy compared to other industries and instead of focusing on the heavy hitters first wasting time on the climate impact on AI doesn’t seem useful
? Am I misunderstanding the push for nuclear energy and record energy prices in locales with new “data centers”?
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#113Earlier quoted context omitted.
AI is one of the causes that climate change is accelerating, which is another in a long list of reasons to hate it.
People sure don't care about it anymore and it coincided with rise of AI. There's barely any mention of climate change compared to 5+ years ago. I really think this is all about how to keep the capitalist system from imploding because of so much debt (so the next big thing needs to happen to keep the growth).
climate change was an important issue when they were trying to peddle EVs and solar.
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#114I wish there were a filter on Hacker News to hide all AI related posts.
This is hacker news. Somebody made that and uses it so they don't see this post to tell you about that but it exists.
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#115AI is fine . The hype is annoying. What's even worse though are the incredible amounts of money and energy that are being thrown at it, with no regard for the consequences, in times of record inequality and looming climate apocalypse. AI is the red herring that'll waste all our attention until it's too late.
> AI is fine. The hype is annoying. I'm finding the detractors worse than the hype, because it seems like a certain subset of detractors [0] formed their opinion on AI in late 2022/early 2023 when ChatGPT came out (REALLY!? Over 3 years ago!?) and then never updated their opinions since then. They'll say things like "why would I want to consume X amount of energy and Y amount of water just to get a wrong answer?" In…
Claude Opus 4.6 regularly makes up shit and hallucinates. I'm not a detractor by any means but "exceptionally rare" is fantasyland.
Re: Is anybody else bored of talking about AI?
#116AI is fine . The hype is annoying. What's even worse though are the incredible amounts of money and energy that are being thrown at it, with no regard for the consequences, in times of record inequality and looming climate apocalypse. AI is the red herring that'll waste all our attention until it's too late.
> AI is fine. The hype is annoying. I'm finding the detractors worse than the hype, because it seems like a certain subset of detractors [0] formed their opinion on AI in late 2022/early 2023 when ChatGPT came out (REALLY!? Over 3 years ago!?) and then never updated their opinions since then. They'll say things like "why would I want to consume X amount of energy and Y amount of water just to get a wrong answer?" In…
I don't think it's worthless. It can greatly speed up coding. And learning foreign languages. And many other things.
But I do think humanity is worse off because of it. So I'm a detractor in that way. :)
Re: Is anybody else bored of talking about AI?
#117AI is fine . The hype is annoying. What's even worse though are the incredible amounts of money and energy that are being thrown at it, with no regard for the consequences, in times of record inequality and looming climate apocalypse. AI is the red herring that'll waste all our attention until it's too late.
How did HN become this kind of website?
I went to a conference and people were suggesting nationalizing AI companies so it's basically everywhere.
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#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
AI is one of the causes that climate change is accelerating, which is another in a long list of reasons to hate it.
Im not sure I follow. AI barely consumes energy compared to other industries and instead of focusing on the heavy hitters first wasting time on the climate impact on AI doesn’t seem useful
Before large models things were starting to move to micro VM, lean hardware, firecracker cloud platforms running thin containers.
Ai buzz and now we are building giga factories. It stands for gigawatt usage, no less target.
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#119Re: Is anybody else bored of talking about AI?
#120The debate around "AGI" is the thing that gets me. People just moving goalposts and arbitrarily applying their own standards makes for a lot of wheel spinning
AI enthusiasts love to misuse and abuse the goalpost metaphor. It’s practically always an attempt to silence opponents.
It's easily abused by both sides of the debate because there's no strict widely accepted definition. I find it tiring because it's a largely inconsequential benchmark anyways (outside of Microsoft-OpenAI contract disputes).