Der frühere Google-Chef Eric Schmidt sagt, wir sollten uns voll und ganz auf den Bau von KI-Rechenzentren konzentrieren, denn „wir werden unsere Klimaziele sowieso nie erreichen“

So his reasoning is to not reign in AI so that it can fund a solution to attain climate goals faster than reining it in and not using AI to figure out how to achieve climate goals ?

Isn’t this the guy that gave $100 million into his 30 year old (now ex) girlfriend’s failing startup

Might as well hang him now cause he’s going to die anyway.

This guy is such a dangling penis

This is the thinking I’ve been talking about for years now.

Some rich people are so done with life that they feel like it doesn’t matter if the world becomes uninhabitable. They’ll be dead anyway. They wanna be able to say they reached the very top before they die. There is no “after”. It’s a race.

As soon as they see $$$, it’s: fuck the climate, fuck our non-profit status, fuck our safety committee, fuck your privacy

Guy who owns private jet telling the world we can’t hit climate goals

So this is our Great Filter. Noice

“Don’t be evil”

“We tried nothing and we’re all out of ideas.”

lol. It couldn’t be that this guy has some sort of financial incentive to says this? Right?

Google is also building geothermal power plants

Geothermal power plants are the best counter to global warming

Google should just lead with hey, we’re building the power plants to counter it that are good for global warming

We seem to have gone from climate change denial to climate change nihilism in the past few years.

The only thing connecting both viewpoints is the idea that we should not tackle climate change in a meaningful way.

We are doomed anyway, so why not do something the benefits me greatly while we head into our apocalyptic future at full speed?

I would have to say I agree. Ultimately. Climate change is a problem 100% but we can approach it from many angles. It’s so short sighted to think there’s only ONE solution.

To help us with this we can approach it from a few angles. But first we have to think about what climate change really means. Are we worried about life on the planet (ex climate change leads to problems w earth which leads to problems for humans +/- the other animals) VS are we worried about the planet itself.

Those are distinct problems. Some fringe solutions apply solely to each of those, if we are worried about life – then one solution is to become space faring. We treat planets like resources and when we are done we move on. On the other polar end, we could depopulate earth (perhaps in a similar fashion to the one child policy). I’m more in favor of a mix + life being important with a small amount of planet being important.

Yes the traditional solution we’ve come up with is limiting fossil fuels and emissions. But for all the rhetoric in the world. This is actually a highly unfair and “privileged” view. Most of the people on Reddit likely live in high developed or developed countries which means we enjoy a relatively high quality of life. To get there we had a period of industrialization where we didn’t worry about emissions and now we have the PRIVILEGE of trying to limit things.

There are… however…. Many other countries still up and coming. Is it fair for us (the people who got there already) to now turn around and be like “yo now that we reaped the benefits of it, we now want everybody to slow down”. It’d be different if everybody in the USA/Western Europe/Canada were to say “ok well we are lucky and we care about the world overall. So instead of restricting the developing world, each citizen will volunteer to pay 50% of our incomes in tax to donate to those countries so they can develop while matching emission targets. Infact we might be so hypocritical that we’ve secured more emissions for ourselves than for some of those countries.

How is that a “good” solution? Infact even if we go along with it, it’s a bandaid. Not a solution. We are delaying the inevitable (and to do that holding everybody down in the process).

What AI represents is a way to generate new solutions. What if we were able to get technology that divorced us from emissions in general? What if we could climate engineer things backwards. Or in a worse case scenario, what if we found a way to reliably space travel so we can have backup plans to Earth?

There’s more than one solution to a problem. AI may help us get there. And for what it’s worth our existing solution isn’t that great anyways

Isn’t this just what capitalism is doing right now? “Fuck it, I want to get rich before the clock runs out” Its kind of just saying out loud what I assume they say to their friends every day.