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Former Google CEO says climate goals are not meetable, so we might as well drop climate conservation — unshackle AI companies so AI can solve global warming (www.tomshardware.com)

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Oh, I've seen that before.

"Hey AI, please come up with an efficient mass transit vehicle for the modern age."
"Trains."
"Um... no, we need a modern approach that maximizes throughput and--"
"Trains."
"No. How about pods with people inside--"
"On cheap infrastructure with low friction steel wheels and coupled together. Trains."
"It's not letting us push our agenda, this isn't going to work. Hey, other AI..."

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Trains are the carcinization of transport.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I love that we were able to decouple this meme from peterson even tho he popularized it iirc.

Its a good science meme.