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Spur of the moment post, currently in the middle of nowhere (work, not fun), written in my cellphone, so corrections may take a day or two.

I am tired of fixing other people's mess. What I lack in funds, I have in will and drive, AI ain't staying in the hands of a few.

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It will soon be easier to buy a Glock than a GPU.

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That is precisely their goal 😡😡😡

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NOW I finally understand the push for idiotic DLSS and fidelityFX.

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😆 that is a whole discussion in and on itself bro.

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Avoiding harm....now, that is funny. Like someone who never leaves home, but falls down and dies from an experimental injection.

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Short version: Jews trying to middle-man their way to controlling another key industry that will drive politics and policies and make billions. AI censorship will be VERY high on the agenda.

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I have nothing against the man in the street jews, or any other folks/religions, but it is remarkable that some jews in very influential positions (Kissinger f.i.) seem to direct the uppeties of the world.

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Good, thought provoking article, however, the simple fact is that AI and renewable infrastructure require rare-earth-metals, that are rare! We have a choice of either AI or renewables, not both. AI is monopolist, creates massive unemployment and is duel-use, which is the complete opposite of renewables, and we don’t have the luxury of time to make that choice.

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Renewables has a cost tag right now of 7 trillion dollars per year for God knows how long. They are also unfeasible and give a massive strategic advantage to China.

There is no renewable, green world without China's choke hold on the entire planet.

https://about.bnef.com/blog/the-7-trillion-a-year-needed-to-hit-net-zero-goal/

With advanced enough AI, we can't solve the energy problem and most other problems.

Plus go see how much China (leading the world in renewable energy) is buying and planning on acquire on the AI-computing power department.

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What you say is all true, but leaves us with desperate options. Renewables and AI both use rare earth metals that are rare, so we don’t have the luxury of both, we must choose one or the other, and AI is duel purpose, sand the Chinese are ahead in both. We are between a rock and a hard place.

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Oct 18, 2023Liked by Moriarty

Rare earths are not that uncommon but refining capability resides in China. A gigantic resource in Greenland is blocked from development because it is deposited with an economic uranium ore.

(Why do you think Donald Trump wanted to make a deal for Greenland? It wasn't for the golfing and casinos.)

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When I saw the mention of a few $Billion from Microsoft I immediately thought of Bill Gates' promotion of SMR's.(Small Modular Reactors.)

There is little discussion of the energy consumption of the LLM's. In the best apocalyptic SF (Colossus was an early story that I recall) the machine controlled its own power and could not be unplugged or turned off.

Do you think the existing AI has had enough influence to ensure its own energy supply while leaving the useless meat beings to survive on renewables?

I am going to Municipal Council (North Cowichan) tomorrow evening to try for one of the peasantry's three minute opportunities to speak against their acceleration of the "Net-Zero" building scheme. Three councillors and the mayor are fully engaged in the Climate Catastrophe narrative and will ignore the other three who might listen to real facts, so the vote is already settled. It's raining about 3mm/hour now but they previously shut down farms because of "aquifer exhaustion" - this is not a scientifically or technically literate group and I don't suspect that AI could help them much.

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As much as AI companies and a very small faction of AI doomers (the ones at the very top) want to hype their own creation, we do not have anything even close to a sentient AI, so no, I don't think so, if anything, that is just companies and countries looking out for its own "national security".

Most of the biggest companies in the world do not believe in green energy anymore, and some of them mathed it out, and reached the obvious conclusion the grid won't be able to handle the demand, during or after the "green transition".

No meme (cultural gene) has harmed more our civilization than the "climate" bullshit. Good luck dealing with the people infected by them, I wish you the best of luck and mental fortitude lol.

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AI is going to be hampered by GIGO. The hype pushing AI always ignores it.

https://martinschell.substack.com/p/a-couple-of-chats-with-chatgpt

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While I agree 100% with everything you have written here, I have no idea what exactly I'm supposed to do about it. If writing to congressional reps might help, please offer suggestions. ( Probably best to keep it simple and concise.) They undoubtedly already have non-committal replies ready but if they hear from enough of us ......!

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Just bringing this highly important matter to the attention of my readers, not many are paying attention to this or are even aware (by design of the named individuals here).

Writing might be benficial, but... the amount of money going in, makes things a little harder. We will need...creative ways to deal with these problems.

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