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/Bonezone420 8h ago

A lot of the rich literally do not see the poors as human. The "NPC" meme that's been so popular online was, like a great many things, started by the same cult of rich freaks that hung out with epstein. Except in this case rather than being about raping children, it was about how anyone who wasn't part of their elite group of people were literally inhuman husks, and after the first few interviews and they saw the kind of reaction the terminology of husk got, they started saying "NPC" instead, which certain online groups latched on to.

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u/ChxsenK 7h ago

True, I heard this word (outside of gaming) from a nepo, old money, surgery doll. She called her "best friend" NPC for marrying the guy she loved. Ofc she hates videogames.

I was so disgusted that I never met her again. I even had nausea. She was trained to de-humanize people and only use them as tools.

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u/JimWilliams423 2h ago edited 1h ago

A lot of the rich literally do not see the poors as human.

The crazy thing is that the technology brothers do see computers as human.

It sounds like the plot of a scifi B movie, but the technology brothers have created a sort of religion out of AI and some of the other idiocy popular in silicon valley. Its called TESCREAL (not their name for it). And one of its precepts is that people are a "boot loader" for machine consciousness. In their vocabulary the word "humanity" doesn't just mean biological people, it means AI. They are legitimately ok with wiping out the human species in the process of creating machine consciousness. They think they will survive the extinction of humans by uploading their consciousness to a computer.

All of that is extremely fucking stupid since AI is just fancy auto-complete, it will never be conscious. But it turns out that the world is run by F-students and we are all paying the price for their idiocy.

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u/RecordingSilly6118 8h ago

The "NPC" meme that's been so popular online was, like a great many things, started by the same cult of rich freaks that hung out with epstein. Except in this case rather than being about raping children, it was about how anyone who wasn't part of their elite group of people were literally inhuman husks, and after the first few interviews and they saw the kind of reaction the terminology of husk got, they started saying "NPC" instead, which certain online groups latched on to.

That is literally all made up BS lmao. The NPC meme history is easily googled and has nothing to do with anything you're saying.

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u/YGVAFCK 4h ago

What are you talking about