Damn right.

and are quick to remind you of your sins

On the other hand, it’s totally cool and good to drag around a big cross of contrarianism in a totally-not-self-righteous way because your treat printers were criticized, amirite?

LLMs, in their primary and most common uses, are planet-burning trash, but the important thing is the contrarian in this thread found a way to feel superior to those that don’t like when material conditions get worse.

I think the bigger problem is that each answer it gives basically destroys a forest

That, and it’s filling once-useful search engines with useless and even dangerous gibberish.

This sounds a lot like “I need to catch up; what is contrarian and edgy right now?”

It feels like saying we can keep burning coal because we’ll develop carbon capture and storage.

The CEO of Google is saying exactly that when he says more LLM data centers are necessary for data regurgitation technology to maybe come up with a solution for climate change that isn’t “stop pumping carbon into the air with more data centers you fucking ignorant bazingas.”

You seem to be conjuring an imaginary psych degree so you can concern troll. Fuck off.

Drej words for "I think I’ll just sit back and watch these ignorant humans burn their own planet down while fantasizing about escaping it for now.’

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You right now, because you’re totally not mad about your hopium escapist fantasies getting challenged:

You can ignore catastrophic global warming and actual fucking wildfires of unprecedented frequency and scale if you think being a Reddit-tier pedant will protect you.

Hopium huffers will smugly chant “asteroid mining!” as the answer to your questions, in much the same way that “monorail!” was chanted during that one Simpsons episode.

All these answers are so killjoy and boring.

Yes, fantasizing about billionaires fixing everything by making good on their bullshit marketing pitches is very exciting to credulous people.

Building habitats on other worlds doesn’t prevent us from caring for this one.

If you believe that there’s some magic means to have zero emissions launches into space that are in any way self-sustained without further launches to keep throwing resources after spent resources from an increasingly polluted, depleted, and warming Earth, sure, you can huff that hopium deep and hard and ignore the worsening material reality all around you.

Plus maybe trying to make a liveable environment in space can give us new insights in preserving the one at home.

You’ve bought deeply into billionaire bullshit and their bogus promises, especially as privatized space travel in the west becomes increasingly vanity tourism and marketing stunts. The accomplishments that such companies’ underpaid and overworked workers achieve are not for the common good, nor can they be because they are publicly subsidized private companies seeking to maximize profits and expand their own venture capital appeal, and nothing more.

Thank you for the clarification; without context I couldn’t tell.

What “we?”

There was no meaningful point made, just a bad faith demand in defense of corporations.

it makes them seem all the more credible…

To a credulous rube like yourself, sure. Keep licking that boot! Maybe one day you can wear it!

“Who hurt you?”

I utterly fucking despise the contextual ableistic assholery inherent to that put-down. “Teehee, the person I disagree with must have trauma that distorts their view of the world and that’s LE FUNNAY and worth mockery!”

Liberals are just unscratched fascists and this is evidence toward that statement.

People that use question marks in non-question sentences just to be extra snippy and condescending. Fuck that.

Apparently, just unspoken default/normal. You know, boomer-style solipsism.