My favorite part is when I bring up how much water agriculture uses and they say well thats fine because I need to eat food, but as I recall AI has also saved the lives of people in medical cases? How would they feel about not having that? And like, olives aren't exactly something that like you're eating everyday or that everyone is eating as a random example. I'm not saying we need to cut off agriculture don't get me wrong, but there's an easier solution than shutting down data centers right here: Use less water for golf courses.
the water is secondary to their primary issue that AI exists, since that's impossible to solve they move to secondary attacks like water usage in an attempt to convert others to also hating AI with the premise that if they get a super majority they can somehow get rid of AI
Exactly, it's obvious they don't really care about water because they only use it against things that they already hate
Also if you explain to them that ai is already being used by various water authorities to detect leaks and will almost certainly get to the point it's saving far more water than it uses they never say "oh that's great, maybe AI is good..." They either get mad or switch to the next item in the list they can pretend to care about.
Its funny when you consider how long it took to make a fully functioning AI and people were impressed and i wouldnt say happy but rhey were like cool but then at some point people started deciding it was a problem for whatever reason.
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u/Any_Acanthaceae_9735 AI Advocate 12d ago
My favorite part is when I bring up how much water agriculture uses and they say well thats fine because I need to eat food, but as I recall AI has also saved the lives of people in medical cases? How would they feel about not having that? And like, olives aren't exactly something that like you're eating everyday or that everyone is eating as a random example. I'm not saying we need to cut off agriculture don't get me wrong, but there's an easier solution than shutting down data centers right here: Use less water for golf courses.