[dylan604]

at this point though, we have seen enough of these tradeoffs that as a society we should be able to start seeing the downsides in advance before the new becomes ubiquitous.

then again, it didn't stop us from glomming onto GPTs after seeing what we did with socials.

[conductr]

> then again, it didn't stop us from glomming onto GPTs after seeing what we did with socials.

I usually phrase similar in context of energy usage and how any improvement we can make in our personal lives (renewables, EV>ICE, efficient appliances, etc) is basically dwarfed by crypto and now AI. Seems we will continue inventing & promoting rather unnecessary technology that do exactly the opposite of what We, as a species, need to do from an energy use perspective

[MichaelZuo]

It doesn’t matter if there are millions downsides, if there are also millions of upsides, then it clearly could still be net positive.

Just saving elephants from extinction alone is probably worth an enormous amount.