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AI use is surging astronomically around the globe, requiring vastly more energy to make AI-friendly semiconductor chips and causing a gigantic explosion in data center construction. So large and rapid is this expansion that Sam Altman, the boss of OpenAI, has warned that AI is driving humanity toward a “catastrophic energy crisis.”
@gerrymcgovern AI will destroy us
@gerrymcgovern And the planet
@bouriquet @gerrymcgovern
Nah. The planet itself will be just fine, barring cosmic scale calamity. It'll continue to circle around the sun, being a planet, content in its planetness.
In a few hundred million years, some other species will be making wild theories about the "plastic layer," and sudden die-off in the fossil record.
@BlippyTheWonderSlug @bouriquet @gerrymcgovern I like to say that arguments over whether or not the Earth will be fine are oversimplified: We're talking a lot of innocent species with us!
@BlippyTheWonderSlug@ieji.de@alcinnz @bouriquet @gerrymcgovern
It is that simple. You're overcomplicating it. We're doing "apples and oranges."
The earth, as a planet, will be fine.
Whether or not we, or other species can live on it, has nothing to do with it being a planet.
The atmosphere/environment we live in is a transient property of the planet, but it is not the planet.
As far as we know, many, if not most, planets are devoid of life.
I would argue a lifeless earth would be more "normal."
@BlippyTheWonderSlug @bouriquet @gerrymcgovern Well, I do regularly see this argument crop up.
People arguing over these 2 grandiose statements & getting offended what they see their opposition reading into it.
