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MisterMoo ,

Okay thanks Bill, I won’t.

Snapz ,

Actually frees up some time on the old to-do list!

Look out Saturday, cuz here comes Millhouse!

yardy_sardley ,

Alright, but if I end up getting stuffed in a goo-filled pod so the AI can suck my energy out through a massive plug in the back of my head, I’m gonna be pretty upset.

TheFriar ,

Bill gates accepts your terms

telllos ,

It’s not going to be in the back of your head.

TheGrandNagus ,

Rich billionaire twat who owns a shitload of Microsoft shares says AI is good, don’t let the bubble burst. More at ten.

555_1 ,

Don’t forget about him spending time on Epstein’s island with a bunch of underage girls.

TheGrandNagus , (edited )

Or how the Gates foundation fought for the Oxford COVID vaccine NOT to be open sourced, and instead sold for profit, so that it wouldn’t undermine his pharma stocks.

Oxford university had previously secured funding from the UK gov to develop the vaccine under the expectation they open source it so that poorer countries would have greater vaccine access and the rollout could be faster.

AWittyUsername ,

Oh Gates what a lovely altruistic human billionaire.

Thorny_Insight ,

If this isn’t the most cynical message forum then I don’t know what is.

MonkderDritte ,

I say shut up.

BlackEco ,
@BlackEco@lemmy.blackeco.com avatar

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 ,

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 ,

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

kbal ,
@kbal@fedia.io avatar

Suddenly I'm worried about AI's energy draw. "6 percent of global electricity" is not a small amount of electricity.

maxinstuff ,
@maxinstuff@lemmy.world avatar

Iceland figured this out some years ago, and now they make heaps exporting computing power to international AI compute buyers.

They do it with a naturally cold climate, and loads of geo-thermal power.

li10 ,

Ah, okay, thanks Bill 👍

kenkenken ,
@kenkenken@sh.itjust.works avatar

I wish to live in a world where the media doesn’t consist of articles about how some rich or famous person says or thinks something.

Thorny_Insight ,

There may be others reasons to interview Bill Gates about AI than the fact that he’s rich and famous.

RizzRustbolt ,

While shooing folks away from a curtained-off area.

technocrit ,

They gonna be hawking these cliff notes machines even as the last breathable air disappears.

uriel238 ,
@uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Are we absolutely sure it’s real Bill Gates and not Robot Bill Gates? I mean he’s had bad takes before but maybe it’s best to be sure?

PotatoesFall ,

Least insane techno-optimist

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