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So stupid. This AI evangelism is getting ludicrous. "Let's burn the planet because the AI will help us solve the problem" is utter lunancy.
We already have the answers to the current problem. To make a new worse problem and hope some magic AI will solve it for us is reckless and madness.
It's becoming increasingly clear how moronic the leadership in the tech world really is. They think they are geniuses because they have helmed companies that print money, but all they have done is ride the cost tails of the technical and creative minds in their businesses and built monopolies with the technologies they've accrued.
Schmidt is an idiot. Musk is a moron. Steve Jobs was a cretin, who died because he thought he knew best about pancreatic cancer. They all believe the success of huge teams of people are their own. Ignore these idiots.
Schmidt and Musk are examples of tech leaders that are a danger to humanity.
I'd add Peter Thiel to that list.
I would add all of them.
there will never be any immediate profits to be made from fixing climate change, and the people who profit from not ever fixing climate change aren't the ones who have to worry about climate change
that's why climate change will never be fixed, no matter how stupid tech billionaire CEOs are
Solar panels, trains, wind turbines, bicycles and so forth all have to be made and they usually turn a profit. There are also a lot of positive site benefits of a lot of climate solutions.
This is not to say fossil fuels do not employee a lot of people and fixing climate change is going to hurt people, but it is not as simple as having no benefits.
But they don’t have the crazy high margin of making a piece of software and then charging subscription fees forever
that may be true, but who owns all the lawmakers?
spoiler alert: it's not the damn bicycle companies
edit: more information https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2023/05/31/report-finds-228-local-restrictions-against-siting-wind-solar-and-other-renewables/
it's about money. that's it. big oil has the money, and wants the rest of the money--renewables hinder that, so renewables are hobbled forever. it seems like it should be more complicated, but it's not. it's the money, period
That is why renewables replacing fossil fuels is so important. As soon as an industry looses its profit margin, it starts to loose political power as well.
Damn, so this is why movies on AI are always about how it decides the only solution is to kill all humans.