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by dartos 535 days ago
All I’m saying is that there is a huge machine backed my more money than can be reasoned about which doesn’t care about the environment.

It’s been an almost 100 year battle to get laws and business culture to be more mindful.

It’s clear that it doesn’t really work. At best it works, but far too slowly.

The most any small group of people can do is treat symptoms.

I don’t have faith in our ability to solve the root cause in the face of the political-industrial machine.

Just in 2020 we saw crypto explode. An insane money hungry machine that burned energy to literally waste time so that the value of a record in a ledger increased.

Both individuals and large businesses jumped on that trend with 0 care towards the environment.

LLMs are similar in terms of energy consumption as well.

I’m sorry, but I can’t share your optimism.