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Not using AI is an INCREDIBLE untapped power source! (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 week ago by VerbFlow@lemmy.world to c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world
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This might belong in some circlejerk sub, but I think it's somewhat clever. Basically, if AI datacenters get shut down, the power that would've been used to generate AI slop could be used for magnificent things. I mean, it's purely clean energy because instead of using gas or oil, you take energy that COULD be used for something useless and put it to better use. Think of all the applications.

  • We could power countless electric cars, trains, and bikes.
  • We could power countless medical devices like pacemakers and defibrillators.
  • We could power countless lights in people's homes.

All this could be accomplished by not building massive datacenters. What's more is that there could be countless gallons of clean drinking water used for surgical cleaning and chemistry that would otherwise serve to cool the amount of datacenter power. Think of all the possibilities!

If only Sam Altman could understand this...!

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[–] Alwaysnownevernotme@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

They need the spell to become unbreakable. They need people to literally ignore the evidence of their eyes and ears to the extent that they will willingly not only excise themselves from their families but will join new and even more dominant social structures. Akin to cults. Then they will begin the deification. Fake miracles fake revelations mass delusions on a scale grand enough to whip the masses into violent purges of nonbelievers.

And ultimately a permanent underclass. Likely lobotomized in some way from birth that they draw their, "Breeding stock" From.

God do I hope I'm wrong. But it seems too plausible given the inertial desire for simplicity and the disdain for understanding our culture has. And the cravenness of those we've entrusted with power.