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Bill Gates says not to worry about AI's energy draw (www.theregister.com)

submitted 4 months ago by neme@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] BlackEco@lemmy.blackeco.com 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Ah yes, classic tech solutionism.

"No need to be frugal, the tech will evolve and fix the causes of climate change!"

We need a solution right now, not in a decade, dumb ass. So frugality is the answer.

[–] unlawfulbooger@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 4 months ago

Exactly

To quote the post more specifically:

Even as our species destroys its only home, we assume that the solutions to climate change must lie in technology, without stopping to examine the role that this very attitude has played in the crisis.

This is so deeply ingrained in our social consciousness that, when there is a new impressive technology, we assume that it must be here to solve one of our big problems. As the AI hype quickens the pace of our ecological devastation, we're so dazzled by the technology that there is actual debate in supposedly serious publications as to whether AI is going to save us from climate change, despite all evidence pointing to the contrary.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 months ago

Frugality is what powers evolution. These people don't want evolution, they want to build a religion.