[eropple]

You know that somebody can hold two thoughts in their head at once, yeah?

Green power is great! But there'll be limits to how much of that there is, too, and asking if pictures of hypothetical cats is a good use of that is also reasonable.

[pmarreck]

It's not. But I'm also making a judgment call and neither of us knows or can even evaluate what percent of these queries are "a waste."

I'm flying with my family from New York to Florida in a month to visit my sister's side of the family. How would I objectively evaluate whether that is "worth" the impact on my carbon footprint that that flight will have?

[esafak]

You could use a carbon calculator. https://www.carbonfootprint.com/calculator.aspx

One source recommends keeping it under 2T/yr. https://www.nature.org/en-us/get-involved/how-to-help/carbon...

[croes]

>neither of us knows or can even evaluate what percent of these queries are waste.

Maybe we should find ways to evaluate to know if AI has a net benefit or not

[pmarreck]

How would we objectively measure whether humanity existing is a net benefit or not?