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BREAKING: Sam Altman points out that putting out fires in orphanages also uses a lot of water.
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this post was submitted on 23 Feb 2026
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Think about how selfish marine life is, they live in water, water we could use to cool our AI data centers! Think about that!
In a way, this whole planet is a datacenter, with the oceans as it's cooling system. We are the data.
-Neil Degrass Tyson
In a mirror, you can kiss yourself only on the lips.
-Neil Degrass Tyson
Like, a thousand times over. Why does he keep reposting that same shower thought? Why is he so obsessed about that? Is there somewhere else he wants to kiss himself in the mirror?
This made me realize that it would be really hard to distinguish between a satirical NDT quote and something I have earnestly and profoundly thought to myself while 2 edibles into a nature documentary. And I'm not sure how to feel about that.
God I hate him so much... Well he used to just annoy me, but now I hate him
You know what conserves energy at nearly 100% efficiency?
A guillotine.
You know I am going to argue for the sake of it
It also conserves mass
It at least provides me with better returns than a data center.
Why do we need an orphanage in the first place? Is the Orphan Crushing Machine not working?
Spoiler alert: they need orphans to run the orphan crushing machine.
Ahhh the circle of life!😍
I have no idea if things are real or satire anymore...
it's great that one of the main dicks in charge of AI uses pants-on-head stupid not-logic to justify taking water away from literally everything else for a thing that doesn't work, but still steals jobs
If we restructured society in a way that makes increases in efficiency benefit everyone I'd be fine with such things. The difference here is, however, that we don't live in such a society and that LLMs aren't actually useful or better at work that people are, it's just that managers and CEOs think they are. They will realize this in a few years after most of their software is fucked over and they'll have to hire actual developers to fix it.
The problem is we want increases in efficiency that benefit 99% of people but the 1% want the opposite and can override everyone else.
Taylorist production has been tried, yielded objectively better results than the old production methods, and they were still scrapped. Workers wouldn't adapt to more efficient production methods without more pay, and it necessitates worker-managers to train other workers. Since the owners of the factory refuse to pay workers more, so it's DOA.
Capitalism isn't rational, and can not become rational. "Increasing efficiency" means firing workers, not improving production. I know you maybe aren't arguing for more efficient capitalism, just saying it has been tried. Taylorism is the Esperanto of production. "Increasing efficiency," to the capitalists, means firing people, not making the system more rational.
It wasn't my goal at all to advocate for capitalism, an inherently abusive system :P
Increases in efficiency should lead to less work required and a better life for everyone
I had a suspicion you weren't advocating for capitalism. But just in case someone comes along and thinks "yeah make capitalism more efficient," I like to underline the fact that "efficiency" has a different meaning if someone is a worker than if someone is a capitalist.
ALSO TO note, one of THIELS other proteges.
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You what saves water? Setting fires in orphanages. In today's Ted talk we're going to outline ways how orphans use up water that could be better used on chunguses. Big Chunguses. Chungodes. Hayden, what's the plural for Chungus and without that word were going to struggle grammatically and I'm not sure we can advance without it
Okay almost had me. I can't believe he would argue in favor of helping orphans.
I can't tell if this is real or not. It sounds ridiculous, but he does say some ridiculous things (like how millions of years of humanity have consumed more energy than four years of data centers...). But this just seems so comically ridiculous that I have trouble believing it.
This is why I hate when people fail to make it clear when something is satire. When people get used to doubting everything they see, then suddenly when someone really does say something comically ridiculous no one believes it.
I'll point it out from time to time and people will say "it's just a meme, don't take it so seriously." But we're supposed to be the rational and intellectually honest ones, no?
So why cultivate a meme culture where we can be just as misleading and deceitful as the fascists? This isn't a fire-with-fire situation. Their goal is to rob us of our humanity; if we stoop to their level, they win.
Even if he really did say this, my point stands, because of the simple fact that it's hard to believe at face value due to the prevalence of misleading memes. There's a line between disinformation and satire. Honest memes should make it clear which side of that line they fall on.
What he said was that training humans takes a lot of water too, in defense of AI. This is a shitpost take on that.
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Did he actually say this..?
He did not say this, but all-in-all, he did say this
"Know What Else Used a Lot of Energy? Human Civilization"
https://gizmodo.com/sam-altman-know-what-else-used-a-lot-of-energy-human-civilization-2000725167
Thank you. This is exactly the answer I was hoping for ^
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Better that than feeding his goddamn Artificial Stupidity company
Backpfeifengesicht.
Gesicht wie ein Telefonbuch.
Aufschlagen.
Zuschlagen.
Immer wieder nachschlagen.
Gesicht wie ein Telefonbuch.
Absolut nutzlos.
Nicht mal als Toilettenpapier taugt sie.
Höchstens als Zunder geeignet.
Me trying to figure out if the 5 year old orphan should be saved: "So the farmer must transport the wolf, goat, and cabbage across the river..."
Actually had to make sure I wasn't on a NotTheOnion instance.
children need to stop drinking water, selfish assholes.
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