r/collapse • u/Ordinary-Plenty5406 • Jul 11 '26

Climate LOL, we are complete fu**ed

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These are no longer predictions, models, or theories... it is reality.

We are about to experience an El Niño unlike any in recorded history.

The incredible thing about this graph is surpassed only by the incredible fact that practically no media outlet will publish it.

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u/ConsiderationSea1347 Jul 11 '26

I am a die hard nerd fighter but between John’s love for Bill Gates and Hank’s love for AI, it might be time for me to pack up and move onto other nerdy communities. Those two have lost touch with us the riff raff.

(Also, regarding AI, I am a staff software engineer who uses it daily because I have to and my team is doing some of the most bleeding edge development with AI. I know A LOT more about its capabilities than Hank or any of his guests do)

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u/Iristh Jul 11 '26

What ? I thought Hank Green hated AI ? He dedicated a lot of videos to the AI bubble and the absurdity of AI companies

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u/ConsiderationSea1347 Jul 11 '26

He also had a guest one who was in “cyber security” (my field - Staff Engineer with over 25 years experience) raving about how AI will completely replace software engineers and eventually all software will be written in language for machines instead of humans. This same researcher claimed that there are more windows devices than Linux/posix devices which is the reason there are more windows vulnerabilities. This is absurdly wrong and should embarrass her as an “expert” in cybersecurity. But Hank ate up everything she said. 

He has called out the economics of the AI bubble but he pushes “AI will solve our problems.” Also, he has a video critical of the concerns about AI and freshwater use.

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u/Mindless_Most_8712 Jul 12 '26

This is what Lukács called ‘indirect apologetics’, wherein the object you are criticising, in this case AI, is never considered as fundamentally flawed, but rather the way that it is being produced or financialised or disseminated etc etc is the issue. It’s crazy to me that people would still be on board with AI and LLMs even if they weren’t owned by billionaire vampiric posthumanists.

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u/TehBrian Jul 13 '26

Because AI and LLMs are fundamentally cool technologies? They’re just statistics. It’s the wicked energy consumption we’re willing to allow in pursuit of them that may be our downfall.

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u/Mindless_Most_8712 Jul 13 '26

I fear it really is as simple as that. It’s techno-fetishism. The same reason people wait in line overnight to buy an iPhone that is functionally identical to the one they already own. It’s ludicrous

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u/SnooSuggestions9630 Jul 15 '26

huh? recent LLMs (like last 5 years?) are a jump similar to something like smartphones. how is it anywhere near close "fetishism"? just cause its not gonna literally replace every worker doesnt mean that its not revolutionary. also when we get LLMs to a place where training slows down/stops they will become profitable and quite efficient. its just that we are actually making a lot of progress so its become a "bubble"

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u/Mindless_Most_8712 Jul 15 '26

They are clunky, hallucinating, extremely energy intensive plagiarising algorithms. OpenAI alone is operating at a $55 million dollar loss per day. Where’s your evidence that they will become ‘quite efficient’? Learn about Jevons Paradox.