• @Zip2@feddit.uk
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    06 months ago

    Or… crazy idea but how about we just listen to what the experts have been recommending we do for years and actually implement some of it?

    • @thr0w4w4y2@sh.itjust.works
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      06 months ago

      I feel like capitalists are waiting on some magic solution like some chemical we spray into the air or a miracle new fuel source.

      The established suggestions from scientists (“fly less, stop buying SUVs/Trucks, eat less meat, consider a heat pump and solar panels” etc) doesn’t support the narrative that we can continue unabated infinite growth with no consequences.

      • @ZeffSyde@lemmy.world
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        06 months ago

        What if we sold the solar panels and heat pumps on a subscription model? Then the corpos wouldn’t have to worry about building new inland docks for their yachts AND they could continue to bleed is dry! /S

        • @thr0w4w4y2@sh.itjust.works
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          06 months ago

          Actually Ovo energy is trying to do that - they estimate a reduction in your energy bills based on installing an energy efficient system like solar, heat pump, loft insulation, etc. Then they carry out the work and you pay it off gradually through your energy bills.

          The challenge I think is then if you want to leave them then you have to either repay that debt or the next energy company has to assume it. There’s a few ways it could be abused and of course the savings take years or even decades to pay off, so there’s a few kinks to work out.

          I hope they manage to get it working though, it will be big for UK customers.

  • @ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world
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    06 months ago

    solving global warming is really simple: kill off all human beings.

    i wonder how long ai algorithms will take to figure that out.

  • @SparrowHawk@feddit.it
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    06 months ago

    These ppl just want poor people to die and be served by robots, it’s never gonna work plus we’ll bring them with us

  • Thoralf Will
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    06 months ago

    The climate goals are meetable.

    If we want to.

    Unless AI forces us to do stuff that we know for decades to be necessary, nothing will change, except a massive amount of additional energy that we need to power the AI.

  • @Skasi@lemmy.world
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    “I know that it destroys our planet, but we shouldn’t restrict my money generation machine” - person who wants infinite money

    20 years later…

    “It’s too late now. You should’ve not dropped climate conservation and solved global warming without AI” - AI

  • @rustyfish@lemmy.world
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    06 months ago

    This is what happens when we do what CEOs want. We will make the world uninhabitable while getting murked by skynet.

    We are officially in a prelude to a sci-fi story.

  • @florge@feddit.uk
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    06 months ago

    AI isn’t going to come with a new magic solution to global warming, it’s going to come with the same solutions we already have. Solutions which we should already be doing, but instead we’re listening to these fucks with too much money.

    • @xploit@lemmy.world
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      06 months ago

      If actual scientists were in charge, and maybe had some ideas that they weren’t certain would work but sounded promising, which could be theoretically tested with AI - there would be hope.
      But none of these fuckers would allow anyone with more than half a brain cell near it, because “investment and growth and blablabla”

      Then again, we could just do that with existing supercomputers and all these power hungry AI crap companies’ resources (I’m sure some supercomputers do get used for the modelling already)…instead of whatever the fuck they’re trying to do now.

    • paw
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      06 months ago

      Additionally, if AI actually gives us this answer, tge answer we have already now, will we as a global society actualky implement it, because it sounds inconvenient (at least for some) or will we say, hey the AI seems to have made a mistake.

    • @Melt@lemm.ee
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      06 months ago

      AI will solve it if they give AI the wheel. And I’m sure one of the first thing it’ll do is eliminating all humans

    • @jonne@infosec.pub
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      06 months ago

      The only thing we should use AI for is to replace CEOs. AI can spit out inane bullshit at a fraction of the cost of a CEO.

    • @Exec@pawb.social
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      06 months ago

      Do you think that they’ll listen to that then? No, they’ll just say that “the models are wrong” and continue to use up even more energy.

      • @Emi@ani.social
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        06 months ago

        It would just end up like in the Love death and robots episode When the Yogurt Took Over. They wouldn’t listen and just do their own thing.

    • Diplomjodler
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      06 months ago

      Of course it will. Simple: build a bunch of killer robots to exterminate 90% of humanity. Problem solved.

      • @SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world
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        06 months ago

        It’s an advanced AI. Surely it can do an Israel and remotely detonate the smartphones of the people it doesn’t need anymore.

      • @egrets@lemmy.world
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        06 months ago

        Schmidt promises that these AI companies will make energy generation systems at least 15% more efficient or maybe even better, telling the audience that “that’s a lot of money for a utility.”

        He’s not even trying to be subtle about it.

        • @ramble81@lemm.ee
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          06 months ago

          I would love to drop these guys into a post scarcity society where their money means jack shit and see how they react.

          • @SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net
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            06 months ago

            Can you drop me there first, please?

            I promise to be suitably wowed. Also, I’ll film them for you. Sacrifices for the greater good or whatever.

  • @halfapage@lemmy.world
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    06 months ago
    1. “Unshackle” AI companies to create true AI
    2. True AI comes up with excellent idea on how to beat climate change and maybe even his to bring peace to the world
    3. CEOs simply say the AI’s plan would be too costly and would inhibit the work culture of their companies which would be a terrible thing to happen, won’t implement anything
    4. From this point forward, CEO’s use taxpayer subsidized true AI to more effectively sell shit to people, and nothing else
    5. ???
    6. PROFIT!
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      Pretty much.

      AI: You don’t have to use plastic! Silicone, graphite, ceramics, glass, woods, and aluminum can all be used as substitutes and often have more desirable physical properties for specific applications.

      CEO: I hear you, I really do, but scientists already recommended this and we’ve already done numerous analyses that have all concluded that it’d be too costly to implement and would leave us with products that aren’t competitive.

      CEO: …Could you figure out how to increase our gross margins by suggesting changes to these designs?

      AI: Sure! We can start by replacing those braze-on threaded nuts with a plastic clamp. I suppose that lag bolt could be plastic as well.

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      I’ve never seen Eric Schmidt say anything that wasn’t utter idiocy. And he says a lot of things, and is always given a platform to say more, just because he’s rich.

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    06 months ago

    We’re not going to hit those targets anyway… SO LET’S MAKE IT WAY FUCKING WORSE

    I wonder if we’ll ever get to the place where people like this unexpectedly meet violent ends. They’ll sacrifice any number of lives for their shareholders interests.

    • @dai@lemmy.world
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      06 months ago

      “You see, killbots have a preset kill limit. Knowing their weakness, I sent wave after wave of my own men at them until they reached their limit and shut down.”

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    Oh, I’ve seen that before.

    “Hey AI, please come up with an efficient mass transit vehicle for the modern age.”
    “Trains.”
    “Um… no, we need a modern approach that maximizes throughput and–”
    “Trains.”
    “No. How about pods with people inside–”
    “On cheap infrastructure with low friction steel wheels and coupled together. Trains.”
    “It’s not letting us push our agenda, this isn’t going to work. Hey, other AI…”

  • @Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world
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    06 months ago

    Former Google CEO’s won’t ever be immortal, so we might as well drop them off somewhere in the ocean and let them swim back. That should give them enough alone-time to figure out how to become immortal.

    • Alphane MoonOP
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      You don’t even need to go that far.

      Just need real courts (based on principles of justice and sober interpretation of corruption and criminality) and proper incentives; full asset seizure and mandatory community service (decade minimum) working as a junior janitor at an Alzheimer patient facility, with restricted access to smartphones/computers and mobility restriction to the immediate area around the facility. You could even get minimum wage while taking part in your community service program.

    • Sneezycat
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      AGI: bZzt my calculations say you should stop consuming as much energy and move onto green energy generation

      Rich people: no, not like that

      • @4am@lemm.ee
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        06 months ago

        I keep meaning to do the scroll of truth meme but it’s him and the scroll is AI and it says “stop burning fossil fuels”

        Nyyeegghh!

    • @SparrowHawk@feddit.it
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      06 months ago

      Especially since the solutions are already here, but rich people just don’t like them since it implies the loss of their power

      • @jballs@sh.itjust.works
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        06 months ago

        “Alright, let’s turn on the AI Mega-Thinker 3000 TM and see what it says about solving climate change.”

        INVEST IN RENEWABLE ENERGY AND OVERTHROW THE BILLIONAIRE CLASS
        

        “…well that can’t be right.”

    • @scarabic@lemmy.world
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      This guy… he’s untouchably wealthy and people bow to him like a god everywhere he goes now. I think this really twists a person’s brain - at the very least it puts him out of touch. He probably has almost no idea what he’s talking about anymore.

    • @houseofleft@slrpnk.net
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      06 months ago

      AI: “Have you tried funding public transport and regulating the carbon industry?”

      Ok, now we need to make a new AI so that AI can solve global warming but without using an existing solution that might marginally inconvenience the mega rich.