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On a related note, it turns out that CO2 emissions also impair cognition. So, by the time the crisis peaks everybody is going to be too cognitively impaired to actually do anything about it.
https://www.colorado.edu/mechanical/2020/04/21/continued-co2-emissions-will-impair-cognition
We're too cognitively impaired to do anything about it right now.
there's certainly a good case for that too
Good thing we have AI to do our thinking for us then
Plot twist: the AI data centers are generating half that CO2. It isn't doing our thinking for us, it's just slow-cooking us.
@Evilsandwichman @yogthos
But AI will fix it for us ...
Hoping a chatbot can save us is a sign of cognitive impairment.