All this energy being burned to create shitty images, shitty music, and shitty videos that all amount to essentially shitty memes. I don’t understand how the singular focus isn’t on solving humanity’s problems.

We already have artists, we don’t have a cure for cancer or the climate crisis.

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johnfn 7 months ago | parent | next [-]

Why aren't you working on curing cancer?

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xrisk 7 months ago | parent | next [-]

I don’t think what he works on burns a bunch of energy for nothing though.

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gus_massa 7 months ago | parent | next [-]

Let's hope he is not the guy that checks the tickets for a roller coaster. They just send people from A to A using an ineficient path that burns a bunch of energy.

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1986 7 months ago | parent [-]

Nobody is out there saying that we need to bring a bunch of nuclear plants online to power our rollercoasters though.

	▲	gus_massa 7 months ago \| parent [-]
		What about the Disney park in Florida? This source claims they use 1E9Kwh per year http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2019/ph241/howell2/ A random google search claims a nuclear power plant produces 1gw, that is 9E9Kwh, so enought topower 9 of them. How many parks do they have? Can we include Disney+? Can we include other similar parks? Some people think Disney is useful and pay for it. Some people think AI is useful and pay for it.

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johnfn 7 months ago | parent | prev [-]

I hope he doesn't work at any tech company; I'm pretty sure you could say that about all of them. I also hope he doesn't have a car - that pointlessly burns energy when he could be taking public transit instead.

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spunker540 7 months ago | parent | prev [-]

There’s an episode of Seinfeld that opens with some standup where Jerry is joking how scientists are working on seedless watermelon, and why aren’t scientists working on more important things. And I always think the same thing! “… so the comedian is complaining about how scientists spend their time…”

It’s a fine joke, but deep down the instinct is very top-down and suggest centrally planned economies, dare I say communism!

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bongoman42 7 months ago | parent | prev [-]

In some ways it does reduce the climate crisis. A person sitting on their couch browsing memes is less carbon intensive than someone driving to their friend's place or something outdoors.