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Or, just eat less meat and you can still have AI
So less food variety and I get trash for the trade, are you the White run merchant buying any random crap the Dragonborn drags in by any chance?
Listen, I didn't say you can't ever eat meat. Just eat a single patty hamburger instead of a double. It's not less food variety, it's called not gorging yourself on things that are bad for your heart health.
Dude I barely eat half the time, regardless it's a piss poor trade given how AI is quite literally worthless to me. It could disappear tomorrow and I wouldn't notice if no one talked about it at least for the shit that these data centers are for. For all the resources dumped into this dumbfuck AI race we could've done damned near anything else and have gotten more value for it with a fraction of the economic and environmental cost, even a bridge to nowhere has better utility.
So how's bout we go down the have no AI and do literally anything else bargain.
It's useless to you, but not to other people. Libraries are useless to me because I pirate books, but I'm not going to say it's a waste
Where do you think the pirated books come from?
Usually library copies
Usually the new releases are from people who personally bought them, not people who wait for them to be put in a library.
Last few physical books I read I just bought because they were rare
Oh I forgotten y'all are Americans, where your libraries have to wait for books instead of getting a copy pretty much immediately
or have double meat and no ai.
Bad for heart health, unless it's chicken which already has much lower emissions in the first place
AI is bad for your brain and society, so there's that.
AI is great for society. Just because it's still in its early years doesn't mean we won't have better uses for it later.
Ah, you're just a dipshit, fair
Sure, just handwave the damage and fast forward a century.
That's the only way we can get out of having to do boring, repetitive jobs literately forever until the end of time.
Yeah such as (checks notes) Art, Music, Writing and joy, so we can (checks notes) be the condom between Claude and Production, be a babysitter for a stupid AI, and have our livelihoods destroyed.
I love that
Not everyone likes AI art or music. I have no qualms about AI email spam. I am cheering for the "corporate email marketing" team to be eliminated as a position
Well yeah, that's cause you're a shill with no sense of taste and bad opinions
Sounds like a bad solution to me