LwL

Reading comprehension, how does it work?

I literally said that in this case it's almost certainly just because they know they can get away with it and make more money

I don't disagree entirely but removing clothing stops being an option at some point and if I'm expected to get work done I'll be far better at it if the temperature isn't making me miserable

I have spent every single one of the past 10 summers in a room that did not dip below 25C for a second over those months. Most of the time closer to 30. I still want to die at 25.

My heat sensitivity is definitely abnormal, but I still have to work just like everyone else. Though even our office with barely existent AC is cooler than my apartment at least. What's worse is that the office sometimes gets to 23C in winter which has lead to me wearing shorts whenever it's above 5C outside, because otherwise I suffer in the office.

This might surprise you but people's perception of temperature varies wildly. 25 degrees for me is fine without clothing, but that's not really an option in the office. I'll survive, but it noticably drains my energy and impairs my ability to work.

Conversely I could say anyone should be fine with 15C inside during winter, but a lot of people would disagree with that too I'd imagine.

That still doesn't excuse that level of wastefulness whatsoever. Oh no, a mild inconvenience!

I just wanna add for humor and to prove the point that I am not voting blue because blue here is the fashos. Because not everywhere is the US, and if that slogan escapes places where everyone expects US-defaultism, things could get very funny.

Because there's like 10000 things wrong with AI and we don't need to blow a comparatively minor (but still fucking dumb given how little we really get out of it, plus the fact that many AI datacenters do use municipal water supply which is kinda horrid) out of proportion. Particularly because this minimizes how much water we already use in general, which is a massive problem.

It's also just a sensationalist, intentionally misleading headline, and that's not something I want to leave unadressed ever. Shitty journalism is a huge part of how the world got into this state in the first place.

If you think sticking to facts is "minimizing harm" then idk what to tell you. The claimed 1 billion people have the same water use as around 100 million us-americans, going from the cited water use figure for AI in 2030. Home water use only, which again is usually <10% of total water used for everything consumed.

None of that means it's not one of the dumbest possible things to use this much energy (which is most of the water use) on.

Statement: "There is no indication that the human brain cannot be modeled as a turing machine"

To disprove this, evidence to the contrary is required. It's not at all the same as saying "The human brain can be modeled as a turing machine". In that case they would need to prove that.

We simply do not know. Humans cling to their idea of somehow being "special" very hard with thought experiments like chinese room, and at all points neglect that there is no evidence that a human brain is actually different.

Generally I'd argue that the continuous nature of animal brains makes them quite fundamentally different from the very much discrete states of anything we program, but that still doesn't mean it'd be impossible to simulate.

Is that including the water going into everything a person consumes (it kind of can't be since AI would.be part of that)? Afaik including the water used for making all the stuff a person consumes increases that figure by an order of magnitude and a bit. So more like 70 million people.

Which isn't nothing, but most of datacenter water use is also just for cooling, so it doesn't need to be drinkable water in the first place (though it currently often is). The waste heat can really fuck with local ecosystems though.

Even with an announcement ahead of time it's so much better imo. Doesn't penalize people for having to work or just living in a timezone where it's the middle of the night.

Sure it feels like you have less agency over when you get it but it's so much fairer.

Artificial semination is key to commercial animal agriculture, and that too would be unambiguously rape in human standards. Not to mention the horrific living conditions of most animals farmed for meat.

It's really just because one has always been normal, and the other hasn't, aka it's cultural. It's not rational. Though there's also arguably far more benefit in killing for meat vs. having sex with dubious consent, so that can be a consideration that isn't purely cultural.