Luckily my neighbors aren’t close. They do seem to be noisy, the motors to pull a vacuum then explosively re-pressurizing isn’t quiet.

Wrong type of rice cake. Im taking about the puffed kind.

Rice Cakes (the circular ones)

They’re regularly $3.49 Canadian now… that’s absurd. It has one ingredient, rice. Rice isn’t that expensive, and it doesn’t even use very much of it.

They’re not even difficult to produce, the machine to make them is only a few thousand dollars and I’m seriously considering buying one from South Korea at this point.

Despite the hatred, advertising works most of the time.

If nobody knows about your product or service, you can’t make any money. Word of mouth doesn’t cut it beyond a local store.

This is exactly the problem I mentioned, in that it’s giving people a false sense of security. There are bots posting without that symbol all the time.

Agreed, the concept of copyright itself is problematic. The flip on this one boggles me. People are constantly arguing that copyright is bad every time Disney or some company use it to make money. Now they’re arguing that copyright is good and LLMs should respect it.

I’m aware, that’s why my comment mentions that

There is no way to reliably identify bot posts if they are not revealing that information intentionally.

Should it be banned? Sure

Can it be banned? No

Does banning it give people a false sense of security that there aren’t bots? Yes

A billion people in the world are vegetarians, and yet 15% of the world’s energy is going to Meat production. They didn’t ask for meat production but there it is.

You also misunderstand what “push to exist” really boils down to. AI is being used by companies because it saves them money, people are buying the products from these companies. They could choose more expensive options that do not use AI, but they are not actually doing that.

By that same logic, people aren’t responsible for the transportation and energy use for any industry, but without customers those industries would not exist and therefore their energy use wouldn’t happen.

That’s why it’s individual responsibility that is causing this disaster, and people putting their head in the sand and blaming billionaires does not help that.

It’s in my comment history. Feel free to pretend I didn’t do it, but it doesn’t change reality.

Based on the last time I did the math a few months ago, and the projections of AI datacenter builds, they’re expected to reach maybe 0.5% of total global energy use by 2030. HALF OF A PERCENT.

I don’t know how even spreading that out matters at all. It’s simply not a concern we should be focusing on until we solve things like meat production (15% of global energy use), transportation (something like 20% of global use), and more efficiency on systems like home and building heating (another 20-25%).

Go do the math on Datacenter energy use. How much of Global Energy use do they account for (include all datacenters even).

I’ve done that math. It’s fucking nothing at the scale of total human use. They are not the issue.

Everyone can change if pushed hard enough. Would you just die if a natural disaster wiped out your entire city/state and you were forced to relocate elsewhere? No, you would not. So it’s clearly possible.

What math? Nobody else has posted math on my comments except me.

The world will burn until people realize that simply blaming others does not fix the issue.

That article is trash. It implies that the carbon emitted by the companies they own is caused by the billionaires.

Amazon’s carbon use is from the people buying shit, not from bezos himself.

You think bezos is somehow responsible for the plane emissions to fly that piece of shit plastic toy from China to your house?

Give your head a shake.

Go ahead, but it won’t matter. As I said, they don’t make up the bulk of the pollution.

It’s not. A billionaire could have 50,000x the use of the average and it still would be tiny. There are only about 4000 billionaires in the world.

4000 x 50000 = 200 million people worth

They would have to each be using 2 million times the average to even be half of the world usage.

Objectively they are not doing that.

Either change the local policies around transportation through local government, or move somewhere more sustainable.

You choose where you live, and your participation your local politics and economy.

People say they don’t have a choice, but people move away for a better life all the time.

I think you miscalculate their footprint.

And even if someone forces your local electrical production to use fossil fuels there are still ways you can massively reduce your footprint both by saving money (not using it) and by replacing it with your own options by spending more (energy collectives, your own solar panels, etc.)

Even so, Electricity is not the largest share of energy use in the world, it’s only around 30%. Most of it is direct use in industry, heavily in agriculture and transportation.

As I said before, eating less meat will save a massive amount of energy use.

Buying less shit also helps.