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shavenferret said:
CaptainExplosion said:

I would come to terms with it if it didn't mean the future was gonna suck harder than I thought it would.

How will companies even stay in business when nobody has employment to afford anything? How will we have fruits and vegetables when our farmland is taken up by data centers? How will we have WATER when all of it goes to data centers?

You want us to come to terms with a future that's unlivable for any of us? Then go ahead, and tell future generations that humanity is useless because that's just how the future will be. Oh wait, you can't, because we'll starve before we can ever have new generations of humans.

If there are any feasible realistic ways AI can do GOOD for the world, like stopping forest fires, reducing garbage, or lower ocean temperatures to what they should be, then prove it.

Mr Explosion and fellow lover of nature, are you using a home based internet that would presumably be running through a data center?

Or do you have some sort of home based server that is doing the dirty work instead of some big bad data center? 

The internet worked perfectly fine before the explosion of AI data centers. 
The internet worked perfectly fine before streaming everything.
The internet worked perfectly fine before smart phones.

Modern smart phones are causing brain rot. You shouldn't be on Tik Tok any moment of the day. Doom scrolling is not what we need. 
Streaming is just a less efficient way of content delivery (but more efficient way of distribution) Home based PVRs worked perfectly fine with the old coax cable, sat tv and ota delivery. 
AI will sooner control information flow rather than guarantee freedom of information.

So we could just go back to the data centers we had around 2010, just more efficient versions 16 years later, and people would become a lot healthier!