Notices by ben🌱ui (_benui@mastodon.gamedev.place)

@tusharhero thanks, let me know when you have a better one 👍

if you're a programmer,
especially if you're new, in university
i'm _begging_ you,
don't use #ai

you won't learn a thing
it's like training for a marathon by taking a taxi
#noai

Every article on AI:

"AI is revolutionizing workflows, it's power is undeniable"

The same article, two paragraphs later

"... it doesn't actually work, it makes things worse in every possible way, customers hate it, workers hate it, it's destroying the environment"

Concluding paragraph

"So the power of AI is changing the world for the better."

I used to be enthusiastic about technology.

Was a teen when people made homepages. I could talk to people around the world.

Mobile phones were neat. You could text your friends.

Then with smart phones you could practice language and play genuinely innovative games for a couple of bucks.

I can't remember the last time I was genuinely excited by tech. Maybe it's a factor of becoming a jaded old piece of shit.

@inthehands @davidsandilands You didn't address that Biden promised no more drilling, then approved a gigantic drilling project in Alaska.

It's the exact thing that the Dems do, make the right noises and then do whatever their donors ask.

@inthehands @davidsandilands There is study after study showing that CO2 emissions are the same or going up. Fossil fuel production in the US is still massive. Where are the positive changes you claim?
https://www.eia.gov/environment/emissions/carbon/

@inthehands @davidsandilands seriously though, you live in the US. The Democrats are "the good ones" and Democratic presidents have helped increase fossil fuel output to record highs. Biden claimed during his campaign that he wouldn't let more companies drill, and then when in office, he let them drill.

People have tried pushing the Dems to move left, it doesn't work. See green new deal.

What is your suggestion to achieve the huge changes required?

@inthehands @davidsandilands the problem is that developed countries are doing their classic "buy a thing to fix a problem" solution. It's like swapping to light bulbs. They think that's enough.

Existing governments and political parties will never make the radical changes needed to stop extreme climate change. It will take things getting really bad, and people having nothing left to lose, for citizens to force the changes we need.

@davidsandilands @inthehands any solution needs to radically reduce the amount of carbon going into the atmosphere. You've correctly identified that electric cars do nothing. Carbon capture does nothing. Trees are too slow.

To reduce carbon output by the level needed we need changes on the scale of entire countries. Regulating industries, replacing coal with renewables.

These big government schemes are usually called "socialist".

The alternative is individual terrorism against industry.

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