[sharifhsn]

Because those criticisms misses the forest for the trees. You might as well complain about the pollution caused by the Industrial Revolution. AI doesn’t use nearly as much as water as even a small amount of beef production. And we have cheap ways of producing electricity, we just need to overhaul our infrastructure and regulations.

The more interesting questions are about psychology, productivity, intelligence, AGI risk, etc. Resource constraints can be solved, but we’re wrestling with societal constraints. Industrialization created modernism, we could see a similar movement in reaction to AI.

[nancyminusone]

>we could see

Well, that's just it. Those extentitential risks aren't even proven yet.

Meanwhile, threats to resources are already being felt today. "just overhaul our infrastructure" isn't an actionable solution that will magically fix things today or next week. Even if these don't end up being big problems in the grand scheme of things doesn't mean they aren't problems now.

[wiseowise]

> AI doesn’t use nearly as much as water as even a small amount of beef production.

It's almost like humans evolved from prehistoric times eating meat. Wild discovery, right?

> And we have cheap ways of producing electricity, we just need to overhaul our infrastructure and regulations.

Why don't AI bros lobby the changes? Much harder than selling snake oil and getting rid of programmers, I guess.