“Energy firm pushed federal officials to scale back clean-electricity rules tied to AI sector” - WTH Carney, we aren’t here to serve gas producers.
We could build datacentres and dedicate them to academic computing - computational chemistry, thermodynamics, physics, to unlock new breakthroughs. Nope, we need to use fossil fuels to power the creation of AI slop I just scan by.
A waste of resources.
Lobbying is bribing. Billionaires bought their way.
And at your expense.
Artificial intelligence may have it’s weaknesses, but you’ve got to admit it does have some kind of strange power to drain all the human intelligence out of the minds of business and political leaders.
The drain is actually just greed
but you’ve got to admit it does have some kind of strange power to drain all the human intelligence out of the minds of business and political leaders.
Most useful AI application.
“Yet this isn’t the first time that the Carney government has taken policy cues from the fossil fuel and AI sectors. This past October, the prime minister directly referenced in a speech the organization Build Canada, which is led by and associated with tech, oil, and gas billionaires.”
begging people to understand that Carney is terrible on climate, and his famous Tragedy of the Horizon speech was only ever about an investment pitch, not about actually mitigating climate change
I guess it depends by what you mean by “bad on” in “bad on climate”.
You can dislike how he’s going about it, say how he balances the issue against other things in a specific decision, but he’s devoted a good chunk of his professional life to it and won’t shut up about it in his book, at least to the point I’ve read.
He’s devoted his professional life to capital markets. I’ve read his book, watched hours of interviews and speeches. My assessment: his interest in climate is largely limited to the potential investment returns of a given action.
That’s why his book is full of fanciful notions of hydrogen fuel, nuclear, carbon capture, AI, quantum computing, and cryptocurrency-based “smart contracts” … instead of focusing on the stuff that actually works but has a low potential ROI, and/or doesn’t funnel vast quantities of public money to the private sector: wind, solar, geothermal, public transit, heat pumps, public ownership, and so on.
Cryptocurrency smart contracts? That is terribly disappointing to hear.
Well, alright then. He does love a good hype technology for sure.
This is fucking awful 😞
Just as there is going to be a global supply crisis no less!
No new AI datacenters. Anywhere.
The Walrus was a great Dead Milkmen song.
