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2°C is likely to be ecologically and economically quite damaging, and also at the edge of where we can be reasonably assured that agriculture remains viable. Its not an everybody-dies-instantly threshold

We already lowered the rate of emissions growth, taking us from 4°C by 2100 to ~3°C by then. Getting more is on us; you can't sit around hoping somebody else acts

You are clearly not a Chinese typewriter historian

You're assuming that the world is covered in server racks. I don't expect anything like that, even with significant increases in datacenter construction.

Let's assume 1kw per person. 10 billion people at peak population some time hence. So about 150 billion m^2^ to provide 1kw per person 24/7. The earth's surface area is 510.1 trillion m², of which about 1/3 is land. So we're probably just fine on renewables.

Nothing people do has zero impact. But pretty much everything else has a bigger one. Coal will utterly destroy the land, and the gases emitted after it burns will destroy far more.

Solar like this on a few percent of the land will supply all the electricity people need. So it looks huge, but is surprisingly low-impact compared with other options, or things like raising cattle

I think they wanted it to be a bit less blatant — they took down this version and Yaccarino resigned

Its Musk's LLM, which interacts with people on X. He's been paying people to tune it to be more hate-oriented for years.

The kind of person who would use X

It was modified to make these kinds of responses much more likely

There's a preview of that, but link points to https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/07/grok-anti-semitic-tweets/683463/?gift=c1JLM5vSU5FaaTvxtMmEpcpUxc9MKWWfcr6Ifc8rD3w

For what its worth, Anthropic posted this in their corporate blog. So if its a joke, its coming out of vetted corporate PR.