• j4p@lemm.ee
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    16 hours ago

    AGI itself won’t end us, but the land, water and energy needs of the massive data centers needed to scale up the computation needed for AI development sure are gonna try

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      8 hours ago

      AGI itself won’t end us

      I’ve yet to hear a good argument for why it couldn’t. I don’t think it definitely will but it’s a real possibility.

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        2 hours ago

        Right now I feel like its more that it’s a hypothetical, while the resource extraction of the AI hype is very real.