The rain of down votes on ur comments shows me that Lemmy has become every bit as much if not worse an echo chamber than reddit. Facts of the matter are humans are overcrowding the plant and gobbling up all the resources at an unsustainable rate. Human population DOES need to drop a bit of we are to use this planet long term, lest we spell our own doom in a few hundred years by picking this once beautiful planet to the bone.
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masterspace@lemmy.ca 3 days agoWe can support the current population, it’s just not profitable or popular to do so.
If your solution ignores the site of human psychology it’s not a solution, it’s a quixotic quest.
Our current standard of living is mostly predicated on offshoring the suffering and waste to the global South, but even that could be comfortably leveled off if we weren’t living under Capitalism.
Yes, and as their standard of living rises to meet ours, the whole becomes increasingly unsustainable without technological advances.
We don’t need large AI farms, we need empathy. The techbros will not save us.
There is a more plausible path for neural networks to be involved in climate change solutions then their is for you to replace capitalism.
innermachine@lemmy.world 2 days ago
teft@piefed.social 2 days ago
Only on lemmy would someone think 22 total votes of which only 3/4 are downvotes would be considered a “rain of downvotes” imagine if you were in a room with 22 people and 4 agree with you but 18 didn’t. That wouldn’t be considered a flood of downvotes. That’d just be a minority position.
innermachine@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Excuse my ignorance but how does one analyze how many up or down votes a comment has on Lemmy?
teft@piefed.social 1 day ago
You can separate the vote totals in the settings i believe. Piefed does it automatically. You can also use lemvotes.org to see how each person voted for the comment or post.
Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Lmao no
I’m sure that if AI could get to the state where it could even approach maybe doing those things, it will mesh very well with capitalism and we’d all benefit collectively. One of the core tenants of capitalism.
I hope someone drops you on your head again
umbrella@lemmy.ml 8 hours ago
capitalism works by extracting surplus value from workers so the owner class can have it.
surplus value can’t be extracted from technology, it can only make workers more efficient cost for cost.
we don’t own the datacenters, therefore it won’t ever be making value to us.
Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
Surplus value cannot be extracted from technology? I guess if you mean directly.
Every technological advancement has been used to to create more value that workers produce that gets stolen by the owner class, so through the transitive property, 100% percent of the value created by technology is stolen from the people actually using the technology to produce the value.
We’ve had insane technology breakthroughs that have made the value we produce skyrocket, and we’re in the negative, by a shit ton.
umbrella@lemmy.ml 6 hours ago
it can only make workers more efficient cost for cost.
i literally said this.
masterspace@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Your issue is clearly with capitalism, and yet you’re brain deadly bitching about AI instead.
Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
We’re just going to pretend that the only reason companies are funding AI research isn’t because they want to replace the work force because it could be cheaper?
masterspace@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
They should. That’s how automation works. We should be building a society that doesn’t require as much work, not insisting on doing work hat machines could do for now reason.
SunSunFuego@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
my brother in christ what are you saying? you know that rich people are the biggest polluters?
you know how ai datacenters literally destroy our planet? and for what? these supposed automation tasks will not serve us. we will have mass poverty and more wealth concentrated into the hands of a habdful of tech bros. it’s the industrial revolution all over again.
the global south is suffering from our actions. and how do you define living standards? do you think a capital slave that works in deadly conditions will be happy becase now they have an iphone and access to electricity? No. a slave is still a slave.
masterspace@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Yes, and what do you think is happening as other countries rise out of poverty? We have way too many humans on this planet to support everyone having a middle class lifestyle.
Yeah, right now. But if you tried to render 4k videos in 1990 it would also take a full data center and enormous amount of power, but computer chips can do this thing where they get smaller and orders of magnitude more efficient over time.