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Makes me so angry. All the problems that couldve been solved with that kinda money. Climate crisis. World hunger. Population migration. Housing affordability.
If Trump triggered WW3 and we all got nuked id be fine with it. We don't deserve to exist.
Instead, all that money is being used to accelerate our doom. AI datacenters unnecessarily consuming power and drinking water in small towns everywhere. Many just dumping humidity into the air and letting that water literally blow away via lazy evaporative cooling. Most "normal" water consuming processes consume, treat, and return water to the downstream-traveling aquifer.
Now, couple that with an overall warming climate. When air is warmer, the more moisture the air can hold. So we end up with more water vapor in the air than normal. With the weirding factor of climate change, this means more water energy for more powerful and destructive storms the likes of which humanity has never seen. Which feeds back into more ice melting, oceans rising, permafrost melting, cycle, accelerate, cycle, accelerate.
Also, real curious to see how millions of warehouses belching humidity and heat into the air across the surface of the globe can affect the general weather patterns, but that sadly won't be known until after the damage is done.
There was an ad during the Super Bowl that succinctly sums up how I feel right now: “America deserves Pepsi”
852 billion isn't 'a small sum of money'. And thats just OpenAI - add to it what Google, MS, Meta etc have spent and I'll bet you'll get close.
What will decimate the global economy is the correction that will happen when either AI proves to be a folly or investors realise they'll never recoup what they've paid out. Or when theres mass unemployment cos AI has taken all the human jobs. We're cooked whichever way it goes.
not taken jobs, but laying people in such massive amounts, and "rehiring" cheaper employees that have been outsourced.
I feel as though people in 3rd world countries will be hit the hardest. Most of the jobs in first world countries can already be done much, much cheaper by foreign workers. Although we could outsource everything, it feels like we give people jobs just to keep people busy.
In the next two decades, I'm convinced that the countries that can't afford to invest in AI and automation will be hit the hardest. The value of their work will be reduced, and richer nations will not freely share the technology.
...it was my point about world hunger. Things are set up to where the global poor have just enough money to by food and shelter. Their low wages are why people in my country have such a high standard of living.
i heard indians are getting laid of by the droves as well due to the AI boom.
climate crisis doesn't cost anything from an energy perspective. Just freedom of competition. renewable energy can outcompete incumbent energy, and a carbon tax and dividend scheme (0 cost) ensures the full (future) cost of dirty energy is considered.