Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.
As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades:
How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:
Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:
Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.
They just dangle the AGI carrot to justify their wanton destruction of everything.
Bored tech bros are in a "war" building datacenters until someone "loses" and to the victors go the spoils.
Meanwhile, they're shredding the rest of the economy so they will have no customers to buy their products when the "war" is over.
Really hope this bubble pops soon.
From a finance angle I don't see how they can make it past like 2026, maybe 2027 before creditors demand their due and the cards fall. It's not only financed by leveraged investments, but a ton of debt. LLMs aren't going to morph into AGI by throwing graphics cards at the problem.
We could try starting with regular intelligence
We honestly don't even need that, everything has been laid out for quite some time now.
We already know how to solve climate change. The "challenge" is solving it in a way that doesn't cost rich people money.
We need to have a livable planet, but it's complicated because economists figured out rich folks could get richer by spending future profits that come from more efficient methods extraction from natural systems. It works perfectly so long as our extraction increases exponentially forever... Sure this is something ultimately unsustainable in a closed system, but you see the rich people are in charge and they like how things have been going...
...and in the past nerds have always found a way of extracting more...
...so like I mean, yeah exponential growth is impossible... But surely some nerd shisht will fix it. I heard a rich dude who said he's a nerd say computer super intelligence will be like the Uber nerd and will figure something out...
Which sounds great 'cause all the other smart nerds are saying the exponential growth we've been relying on, based mostly on converting carbon to CO2 is gonna kill us all...
The nerds are all saying to continue exponential growth we need to get energy from the sun and upgrading our electrical infrastructure, creating a ton of new jobs, spurring new industries and bypassing the generation of CO2 we've been relying on...
...But that doesn't sound profitable for the folks getting rich off converting carbon to CO2...
...So it's complicated. /S