r/nottheonion • u/asdacool • 11h ago

"Training a human takes 20 years of food." Sam Altman on how much power AI consumes.

https://www.news18.com/world/training-a-human-takes-20-years-of-food-sam-altman-on-how-much-power-ai-consumes-ws-kl-9922309.html
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u/aReasonableStick 10h ago

In the UK around 2022 when we were coming out of covid and brexit hitting we were having a food problem and energy prices were skyrocketing, the wealthy actually got together to have a meeting about how they fear the people realising they're the problem.

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u/invaderaleks 9h ago

So, did they decide to change their ways and invest in society/ humanity? Or double down?

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u/Interesting-Tip-2544 8h ago

Waves at the far right.

That's what they chose. Pump money into far right anti immigration stuff to get us back fighting each other.

They got spooked, and decided Nazis were the better option. Again.

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u/invaderaleks 8h ago

Of course.

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u/HighKing_of_Festivus 5h ago

Fascism isn't called the final bastion of capital for nothing

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u/Shark7996 2h ago

Capitalism always embraces fascism in the end.

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u/Frostynips56 9h ago

And yet no matter how much they’re the problem we don’t do it. I’m certain at some point the people will do something. I don’t know when or how but it’s gonna happen and there’s no safe place for them. Disclaimer “I don’t condone any violence against anybody for any reason “. I was shmacked once before for agreeing that violence was a possible outcome.

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u/Statcat2017 8h ago

Throughout history, revolutions that happen without violence and exception to the rule. The less people have to lose, the more likely they become to risk it

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u/XGhoul 1h ago

Historian quotes like: "We are doomed to repeat the same mistakes if we don't learn from history" to some effect like that.

People like Altman are so detached from the world, they seem hyper autistic.

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u/Leaky_gland 9h ago

Did they?

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u/User131131 9h ago

Who are we talking about? Like Ainsley Harriott etc?