>“Thank you. Since we decided a few weeks ago to adopt the leaf as legal tender, we have, of course, all become immensely rich.” Ford stared in disbelief at the crowd who were murmuring appreciatively at this and greedily fingering the wads of leaves with which their track suits were stuffed. “But we have also,” continued the management consultant, “run into a small inflation problem on account of the high level of leaf availability, which means that, I gather, the current going rate has something like three deciduous forests buying one ship’s peanut." Murmurs of alarm came from the crowd. The management consultant waved them down. “So in order to obviate this problem,” he continued, “and effectively revalue the leaf, we are about to embark on a massive defoliation campaign, and. . .er, burn down all the forests. I think you'll all agree that's a sensible move under the circumstances." The crowd seemed a little uncertain about this for a second or two until someone pointed out how much this would increase the value of the leaves in their pockets whereupon they let out whoops of delight and gave the management consultant a standing ovation. The accountants among them looked forward to a profitable autumn aloft and it got an appreciative round from the crowd.

- The Restaurant at the end of the universe, Douglas Adams

> doesn't die from wet bulb temperatures

AI, which is data-centers have been first-class citizens on this planet. All DCs have air conditioning, which most humans don't have. Without AC, these race of machines will fail often.

Also, this race of machines is refreshed every 3 years.

… which is accomplished by … building lots of new data centres with each with thousands upon thousands of GPU:s drawing megawatts day and night. The maths checks out.

how, be specific & based in objective reality, without VC hype words & cultist like language

Technology won't save us.

Hoping that someday soon^tm someone will come up with something that makes all the current mess go away is a dangerous path.

In germany they call it 'Technologieoffen' - and even some political parties have written it on their flags. 'No need to implement changes now - someday God will decent and absolve us from all of our sins - until then party hard! #yolo'

I'm all for accelerating research/tech. But it can't be an excuse to just let sh*t happen. Yet most people will do this - it's expected human behavior.

The difficult and limiting part of scienctific work isn't coming up with ideas (which is, at best, all a glorified Montecarlo chain autocorrect can do) but actually designing and performing good experiments.

Add to that the amount of junk papers that will be generated and published - through which all future scientists will have to sift - and AI in it's current form is much more likely to be a concrete block dragging scientific progress down.

I believe that AGI is capable of all of this. Eventually. If it doesn't kill us at that point. If we don't get enslaved by the corporations who control AGI first.

Expecting it to happen just in time to save us from ourselves? That sounds more like religious belief to me. We're burning down the garden in the hope we will find a yellow brick road under the ashes.

Either that or the second coming of jesus, I give it 50/50 given the available data