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I feel like we ought to cost things.

How much does a court case cost?

What is the environmental cost of AI generated content?

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.

Why aren't you working on curing cancer?

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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!

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.

- He types from a machine filled to the brim with rare earth metals

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism

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