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The myth that frogs stay in water until boiled has been debunked with actual frogs - at some point they just jump out.
Maybe they are smarter than humans, then!
frog < snake
Earth is now heating up twice as fast as in previous decades
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Only if exponential growth continues, but population growth is already falling off a cliff and that is the ultimate driver. If population stabilizes or contracts, then the only way this could happen is if per capita energy use continued to increase exponentially to the point that we were radiating enough heat to do this. That seems unlikely. The only scenario I can imagine where per capita energy use goes that high i…
AI will consume any amout of energy if you have enough demand.
This assumes the chips don’t get exponentially better.
GPUs are actually bad for AI. TPUs too. They’re available and general purpose but what you really want is something like a specialized tensor FPGA that can be loaded with the model. Memory and compute colocated.
There is research on this and a huge market but it takes a long time to go from design to prototype to production for something really novel. It’s also very expensive.
A lot of people are afraid AI is a big bubble. The more it becomes apparent that financial bubbles or not the tech is here to stay the more people will be comfortable making long term investments in building chips that are really optimal for it.
Even general chips get more efficient. Ten years ago my laptop was a lap roaster when I ran a big build on it. Now it’s barely warm and it’s twice as fast with four times the RAM.
Of course if there’s infinite demand for AI that won’t matter, but there isn’t infinite demand for anything.
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The myth that frogs stay in water until boiled has been debunked with actual frogs - at some point they just jump out.
IIRC the original experiment that everyone keeps referring to where frogs jump when you put them into boiling water but don't if you heat up the water gradually was frogs with their brains removed . Which makes using it as a metaphor for the climate change and humanity either entirely wrong or much more fitting, depending on where you stand.
That explains reality shows then?
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It depends on what you mean by EVs really. There is an alternative to big electric individual cars, we've been building for 70 years car-centric urban areas for big vehicles doing 30km+ of commute every day. Good luck with a hellscape like Dallas but electrifying Utrech or Tokyo will scale to 9B people just fine.
The alternative is rebuilding 100 years of urban areas? For unimaginable trillions of $, and monumental construction emissions? Nah I’ll take EVs please
Not rebuilding, but at least not building more of it. But this exact mindset is why the US can't be helped and will be the last one to go low on carbon. The whole culture is built exclusively on unlimited space and resources.
Suburbia is much younger than a 100 years btw: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=y_SXXTBypIg&list=PLJp5q-R0lZ0_...
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Then the US should stop buying it. Things are manufactured because there are people buying.
So the problem is people buying shit? Not that manufacturing shit is causing the massive amount of carbon emissions? I vote it's the manufacturing. What you just said was "China et. al. are not culpable for horrible environmental practices, the people on the other side of the world are because they buy dogshit products" I can say with 100% certainty that china can manufacture dogshit products in an environmentally fr…
No they can't, it's dirt cheap because the social and environmental consequences aren't accounted for. Both the US and EU could have kept producing with higher standards on their land, they chose not to for profit. China is also not forcing their products onto the west.