Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt says we should go all in on building AI data centers because 'we are never going to meet our climate goals anyway'
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt says we should go all in on building AI data centers because 'we are never going to meet our climate goals anyway'
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt said that AI is advancing so fast, and requires so much energy, that there is no way to keep up with climate goals.
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Fuck You, Eric.
I guess Google really did just change their motto to 'be evil'
"We should all max out and default on 1 billion credit cards because we'll never pay out all debts". Maybe if we frame it that way the religious capitalists will get it.
There's a danger when you advocate abandoning all hope of survival and you haven't yet figured out immortality for yourself.
What? But that's what the bunker in the remote island is for! And the security guards with shock/bomb collars. For living forever right?
I mean Biden just rushed a mad scientist a government position to replace brains slowly with fetal stem cells to end aging. And god I wish I was making up any of that.
(Inspired by west world to replace his whole body??)They are hoping to drag this out long enough to figure it out.
If we're all f***** anyway, I think that justifies a lot of bad behavior. Why don't people burn his house and company to the ground tomorrow? After all, law and order won't matter when the environment goes to hell.
Let’s go all in on Eric Schmidt.
One bite each and they’ll ever know who to blame for the fatal one.
I mean, you joke, but there was a police chase like this about a decade ago. A black couple in Cleveland were driving past city hall, and their car backfired. A policeman "claims" he mistook it for a gunshot. So he began chasing this car.
It turned into a 45 minute chase all over Cleveland. Four cop cars joined in the chase, resulting in the chase ending in the parking lot of a school. When it finally ended, the cops opened fire, shooting 137 rounds at 2 people in a car.
This was the year AFTER Tamir Rice, in the same city. So they had reason to fear the police "just doing their job".
After they searched the car, they found no gun. No evidence of a gun. Nothing illegal in the car. Just 2 dead bodies that they had shot with 137 bullets.
When the cops faced trial, the judge admitted that the cops were in the wrong, were guilty of murder, and had acted under false pretenses of the law.
However, because they could not determine which exact bullet killed them, nor whom of the 8 police officers fired them, they determined that nothing could be done legally to hold the cops accountable to face consequences.
As a Clevelander, yes I'm still upset.
This is insane. If I were to join 7 others and kill someone, we'd all go to fucking prison regardless if only one of us did it. They try people all the time like this knowing damn well only one person could have done it, and they can justifiably do that because they are acting as a group. What kind of lazy dog shit call is this.
That's BS. Such a weird legal sitiation.
In the UK, we just had 2 12 year olds stab someone to death. Due to the fact they couldn't determine who murdered the guy, both were found guilty of murder.
Seems painfully relevant.
Fun fact about Eric Schmidt: he’s a moron
And you might be thinking, well yea, I can read the headline. But that’s not even what I’m talking about.
Inside google a bunch of engineers wanted to make chrome, you know that browser everyone uses and gives google an even more unfair strategic advantage. They literally had to hide this effort from Eric Schmidt because he’s a bean counting moron. He has negative strategic vision and would have killed the project.
Listening to this man prognosticate about anything is pointless. This is a man leading google that couldn’t see the value in owning the browser platform, he might be the dumbest person on earth.
Had a planet full of resources, and thousands of years of rich and interesting cultural development.
Decided to spend all the resources grinding all that culture into a bland paste.
Is… is humanity a shitpost?
This guy never cared about our environment in the first place.
That's a serious dickhead. Others may try but this guy delivers a master class.
That’s pretty cool. Fuck everyone born after now, I guess. Shitbag.
That would make sense if we were all going to blink out of existence*, but we're going to still be here, with raisable and lowerable levels of suffering.
"My toe is already stubbed, no reason not to cut both my legs off"
*actually no it wouldn't because AI is still a massive threat even without the climate getting worse from it.
The most overvalued market is the tech market. The value of all of those cards and circuits are maintained purely through the existence of key monopolies in their production. It's also the one generation the most unrecycable shit, at least not without consequences to the environment. And now they want to build AI data centers so we can finish making the world warm enough that it is not even possible to run AI data centers due to climate conditions. Brilliant.
"we gotta find SOMETHING, SOMEWHERE, SOMEHOW to justify all this AI garbage or it's gonna tank the company."
"Oh well, we lived golden age, tough luck for those young today, fuck'em lmao"
And its the next generation's fault for making it more warmer
The actual quote is kess stupid, but still stupid.
Clearly sets up "AI" versus "climate" dynamic. Also calls "AI" an "alien intelligence".
If we are all going to die by our stupidity anyway, we might as well speed up the process so our last moments will be with better AI to generate more realistic porn images.
I mean, the survival of the planet might be important to some, but the profits of mega corps is more important. Billionaires need to figure out how to travel to Mars so they can chill there before the earth turns to Venus. They need our money for that, and AI to replace annoying poor humans when they live in their Mars mansion.
Or...and hear me out...maybe instead we blast AI data centers with these Jewish space lasers I keep hearing about and leave the land to return to nature? Just spitballin'.
Burning things organic waste like Eric releases CO2 but since we can’t meet those goals anyway I reckon that’s fine.
Not even going to pretend that AI investment will solve climate change then? Saying the quiet part out loud?
Speaking of former tech executives known for comically bad strategic decisions, Steve Ballmer was on the Daily Show recently and I was thought "this is the guy who said Linux was cancer and decided not to invest in mobile phones, can't take him seriously" but the guy seems to be doing some interesting stuff now, more interesting and less harmful than "AI" anyways. Has a site usafacts.com attempting to make hard data with reliable sources easily available for better political discussions. Seems better than some of these other billionaires with their "free speech" platforms and "alternative facts".
That’s a stupid reaso, but I’d buy: we should go all in on ai data centers since that’s a new economic sector that we can dominate, plus it’s less polluting than lusting after a coal industry that never was or steel that never will be again
Actually we have discovered the liquid Natural Gas plants we have been building to get more "clean" power to handle the demand for electricity is actually worse for the world and more polluting than coal! Neat right?
Also metal work will literally always be needed or what are we building all these data centers with?
Natural gas is generally converted to LNG for shipping, especially exports but also wherever pipelines are insufficient. US is a huge producer of natural gas and has hundreds of thousands of miles of natural gas pipelines. This wouldn’t be LNG.
Of course natural gas pipelines also may have leaks and methane is much worse for climate change than CO2 (but for shorter time). However we have been making progress on monitoring and repairs
Predictably increased power usage may also drive investment in renewable energy, shortening the life of polluting power. Regardless, AI is likely much less polluting than say cement or steel production