For energy yes, for materials and particularly fertilizer we’d be running in a problem. Moving to more sustainable diets and agricultural methods will take time. Too much time to not have famine for a while if cut off from one day to another.
Also for poorer countries with less infrastructure the impact (also for transportation) will be a lot more devastating.
Economic hardship has been the only effective emission reducer so far. It’s sad to see we did not upgrade the energy production when we had to, so now only a ruined economy gives us a lifeline.
Such a transparent attempt to clean [REDACTED]'s hands over the botched COVID response. “It was never the president’s fault. Fauci acted on his own and against the president’s wishes. That’s why it all went to shit.”
Give me a break.
Not sure. I assume they have a better IR filter than the small cameras used for the pervert glasses.
Although they may be IR sensitive because they also need to work at night though. Would need to see the technical specs.
There are infrared reflecting glasses that blind cameras.
I believe you, but can you name one so we can all learn more about the alternatives out there?
Aren’t you assuming productivity gains will lead to free time? Why? It never has. Most of us work a fixed amount of time and get paid for that time. Not the amount of tasks we finish if that can even be measured.
Salaries have also not increased with increased productivity long before chatbots came online. So they won’t suddenly increase now.
AI is much more just like a new laptop you get from work. The new device is faster, has more RAM and allows you to do more, potentially.
The big question is, if the purchase was worth it. Unlike a new laptop, LLMs are an ongoing cost to users and providers. Nobody except for GPU producers are actually making money right now. Hyperscalers make some of the money back they themselves invested into the companies using their services, but in the end the ROI looks pretty dim for anyone.
So even if there are real productivity gains, you won’t see people relax with their kids more. And even if these gains are significant they may not prevent a huge economic collapse so we all will have plenty of time with our kids in the end anyway.
It can still be used that way. While most people talk about how corrupt politicians enrich themselves with fake currencies, more legal and legitimate uses can still use decentralized ledgers for useful things. Of course these won’t make headlines.
4% of the world’s population and 14% of CO2 emissions. The fact that we’d need 5 Earths to host a world population living like Americans just shows that CO2 emissions don’t cover everything which defines planetary boundaries.
Your data does not include all the imported goods and land use required for Americans, but merely territorial emissions. US lifestyle is particularly wasteful, so yes, we’ll be halfway there counting also all the imported trash that no longer needs to be produced and shipped.
True. Remove the US and we’re halfway there already.
We still need him to completely decimate the world’s oil production. Can’t give up now.
I’d had so many police visits in my teenage years in the 90s and early 00s if there were this level of automated surveillance.
The chaos president is indeed forcing everyone to look for a more resilient energy production model, but it’s a very cynical way of looking at things. War itself has a huge (environmental) cost, the DoD/W is one of the largest polluters on the planet and receives record funding.
It’s not that hard now is it? Scapegoating the other tribe for your selfmade problems is probably older than history itself.
It will take a while until this huge system finds a new equilibrium. If we stop adding more co2 there’s still a surplus in the atmosphere contributing to warming for several centuries. We have to actively remove co2 from the air in a large scale to avoid huge negative changes to our lives.
Yup, I was a small kid when my dad told me about it and he wasn’t even a scientist, just a teacher. We’ve known for a long time. Ignorance is no excuse.
Open source is fine, but if we depend on badly funded one man projects with a maintainer about to burn out, we’ve created an extremely fragile system.
The argument is of course that anyone can just pick up a project, fork it and make it better, but we have to remain realistic how often a tech stack can survive a fragmentation of an important project. Compatibility and interoperability is vital.
This can and maybe even should happen once in a while, but if it happens too often it’ll do damage to the userbase.
I’ve always argued that vertical integration is the only way you’ll make LLMs somewhat accepted and useful. The article is making the same point. Having a virtual girlfriend like in “Her” isn’t appealing to the average person, but certain results achieved by an agent without seeming like the BS output of an LLM may be seen as useful.