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Jacob Coxon’s old archived tweets
(hilbertspaess.pages.dev)
Hurling ordure at the TREACLES, especially those closely related to LessWrong.
AI-Industrial-Complex grift is fine as long as it sufficiently relates to the AI doom from the TREACLES. (Though TechTakes may be more suitable.)
This is sneer club, not debate club. Unless it's amusing debate.
[Especially don't debate the race scientists, if any sneak in - we ban and delete them as unsuitable for the server.]
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Well we haven’t given up on global warming since we still devote trillions of dollars into climate change solutions plus the rapidly growing clean energy transition that’s overtaken gas in power generation. But I understand the main point-which is that AI and climate change are linked problems, so ignoring climate change to focus on AI is kinda impossible since data centres are a big warming contributor
We did give up on it. New shiny shit comes along and they need electricity, where do they get it? Converted airplane turbines, even reciprocating ship engines, etc, all running on natural gas. All the green pledge companies just polluting like there’s no tomorrow, quite literally.
We haven’t as I mentioned solar and wind have overtaken gas generation, 2.3 trillion was invested into energy transition in 2025
I think that's a separate phenomenon. Renewables are often cheaper than fossil fuels, which is great.
But to avoid pollution, we must actually leave fossil fuels in the ground, unused, unburned.
You know what is the big green initiative at fossil fuel companies? Using renewable energy to power fracking. The worst case scenario used to be that we only leave fossil fuels in the ground when the energy required for their extraction exceeds energy obtained by burning them. Now, the range of scenarios has expanded in both directions. We can leave fossil fuels in the ground because it's cheaper to do renewables. But also we can extract and burn below-energy-breakeven fossil fuels.