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 @gerrymcgovern "AI is predicted to consume twice as much energy as the whole of France by 2030" Assuming nothing changes between now an 2030 which of course given the rate of progress in the past six months is absolute nonsense.  @gerrymcgovern Instead of using ChatGPT, you can run your own AI locally on your computer. There's Chat with RTX and also gpt4all  @gerrymcgovern That became our home server. There is a lot you can do with old hardware. In a city called The Dalles, in Oregon, USA, local people were worried that Google’s water use was soaring. As is so often the case, the city officials, who had given Google hundreds of millions in tax breaks, had no intention of letting anyone know how much water Google was using. It was up to a local paper, The Oregonian, to try and find out. They were forced to bring a case to court. City officials were ordered by Google to claim that Google’s use of scarce public water was a “trade secret”.
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 @gerrymcgovern @mhoye Wondering if I could get away with that at a job. Just do something totally unexpected and with zero regard for anyone around me and if anyone starts to ask questions, just tell them that no one had been told previously because it was my trade secret.  @gerrymcgovern The fuck? I thought like 80% of the reason they built in an old aluminum plant was because it came with two turbines at The Dalles Dam next door and direct access to Columbia River water so they wouldn't have to use city water... Also there's a Dallas, Oregon and the Marion County road department thinks it's funny to post The Dalles signs pointing in the opposite direction of Dallas signs, even though there's no reason to post The Dalles anywhere in the county... AI already uses as much energy as a small country. It’s only the beginning. AI will make bitcoin's environmental devastation look like a picnic. "If ChatGPT were integrated into the 9 billion searches done each day, the IEA says, the electricity demand would increase by 10 terawatt-hours a year — the amount consumed by about 1.5 million European Union residents."
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@gerrymcgovern I live in a country of 1.5 M people and we consume 8 TWh per year. So thats correct. But our GDP is $40B which is half of OpenAI latest valuation, so in this sense AI is 2x more energy-effective than a small country…?  Not alone do we already have too many cars, some predict we may go from 1.4 billion to 2.5 billion in the next 20-30 years. So, we'll have lots of electric cars and lots of petrol and diesel cars. We are breaching multiple boundaries for a safe environment. We must address the problem of overconsumption and its impacts on soil, air and water. Focusing on just one metric such as CO2 will do greater total damage. We must have a basket of metrics covering air, water and soil. @gerrymcgovern Sticking it to the man! (Big oil). Policy does not drive the market, demand drives the market. This is how we win.
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@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green Ultimately the fairest method of distribution of finite resources is a lottery... a method to which humans are evolutionary programmed solidly against... @gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green actually we can have two day shipping but only with a little something called HIGH SPEED FREIGHT TRAINS (and also Steeplecab Electric Freight Trains) #Trainposting  "Its estimated that spam consumes more than 33 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity every year, the same amount as 2.4 million homes. It also produces the same amount of green house gas(GHG) emissions as 3.1 million passenger cars."
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 @gerrymcgovern Regulate it as well as junk mail and telemarketing. Do not call list, Do not send mail list. Do not send spam list. Let citizens enroll. Massive $ penalty for first offense, jail time for the second. They will hide behind "free speech" of course.  @gerrymcgovern unwanted emails, unwanted notifications, unwanted physical mailings. Whole economies propped up on annoying us, wasting our time, and eventually killing us. Excuse me, Mr and Mrs Indigenous. We're here for the metals To save our world, I'm sorry, we'll have to destroy yours. Thank you for sacrificing your family and environment so that our kids can vape and scoot, and we adults can buy 2 ton SUVs and pickups so we can pickup our groceries, 40% of which we're going to throw away. @gerrymcgovern oh, yes. And yet what is an alternative to this? Farming grapes organically in 50 degrees C? So wine can be made to intoxicate us senseless, so we don't have to watch the morons at Mc Donald's stuffing their faces senseless, so they can ignore us, slaving away in the heat? @gerrymcgovern seriously though? If the 40% wasted food could be given to those who don't even have a 1% of essentials, we could manage, maybe. Of course not with the SUVs, those would ve to be recycled back into the heavy metals they made of, back into the earth ... The fruits of capitalism, a system that rewards greed, short-term thinking, and ignorance of (and unconcern for) consequences. |
It takes 20 tons of earth to make one gold ring.
In a handful of soil there are more than 50 billion life forms.
There are 5,000 handfuls of soil in one ton.
100,000 in 20 ton.
5,000,000,000,000,000 life forms poisoned by mercury and cyanide to make one gold ring.
80% of gold is for vanity.
10% is for speculation
10% for industry.
Gold mining is environmentally devastating