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But if you want to lecture others about the (relatively small) environmental impact of AI you can't ignore the environmental impact of all your other habits can we? But for some reason people here are so adamant about the horrible environmental cost of AI but comparatively silent about everything else.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 hours ago*

    No it won't it will most likely be some decades until the material conditions arrive. But it will happen eventually as conditions continue to worsen and voting continues to do nothing. In the meantime you can organise and go on strike just like many parts of Europe at the moment.

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  • [–] 0 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

    Societal collapse is inevitable with or without AI if we let capitalism continue. Also do you know how much AI actually contributes to global warming? There are so many things you could be doing such as not eating meat, not owning a car or using a smaller car and driving it less, organising against capitalism before you consider lecturing people on their AI usage.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 days ago (3 children)

    "Too big to fail" (TBTF) is a theory in banking and finance that asserts that certain corporations, particularly financial institutions, are so large and so interconnected with an economy that their failure would be disastrous to the greater economic system, and therefore should be supported by government when they face potential failure.[1] The colloquial term "too big to fail" was popularized by U.S. congressman Stewart McKinney in a 1984 Congressional hearing, discussing the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation's intervention with Continental Illinois.[2] The term had previously been used occasionally in the press,[3] and similar thinking had motivated earlier bank bailouts.

    So exactly what I said. They might get bailouts to avoid failure.

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