How?

The world needs more bond villains.

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I think AI will be really really useful for a lot of things. Not just LLMs for those that only see chatgpt as AI.

That being said, you're good damn right that no human progress matters when we aren't allowed to try a system other than "give everything we gain to the people who already have everything.

Technology has given us so much more ability to create and sustain, yet. Even people in wealthier counties have only had their standard of living standards or go down due to enshittification/instrumental convergence and lack of antitrust stopping growth-maximizing tumours from further monopolizing.

We can actually create reliable frameworks for a better society, with More responsive firm of growth that wasn't built hundreds of years ago when we didn't have a very good comprehension around some things.

Billionaires should not own the media. Billionaires should not direct text and science research. Billionaires should not be immune from accountability. Groups like the heritage foundation should have long been met with the violence currently being imposed on students, scientists, and actual journalists through the administration.

Making monopolistic power consolidating into a firm of free speech was already a final nail in the neoliberal coffin, splitting people between a fascist cult, people who still haven't realized that neoliberal performative faux progression is just a wing of the fascists, and both are furiously fighting the left, actual progressives, scientists, historians, and experts in living systems/epistemology, or the actual study of intelligence and what we've already been able to learn from it.

On the whole, we can actually conceptualize the proper way to balance systems in a way that appropriately improves the environment for literally everyone. Even billionaires would likely be more happy, just less able to treat the whole of humanity as a play thing.

Not enabling the richest asshole to casually decide a million+ of the poorest should go die because we need trillions in tax cuts for billionaires for some reason.

Absolutely. It's not something new nor caused by something new.

But trump has cut a lot of green laws for data centers. And power plants.

And the sheer amount of additional heat and power consumption these data centers that are running, are using is insane. Akin to adding another few states worth of power and pollution in a span of a few years.

Of course that much additional heat and green house gasses makes a difference. I mean, my understanding is we are probably already past the point of fixing it.

The best we can do is completely stop green house gasses now and hope the extreme consequences only last a few hundred years.

But trump and these data centers are currently undoing all of the progress that has been made (here in the U.S anyway).

Not that much progress was made. But there were corporate interest efforts.

I mean let's be real. The epa regulations were still absurd before Trump cut them, and they never fine anyone even though it sure seems like literally every company has been lying about meeting those restrictions.

Its a millennia long project.

This is another reason why geoengineering is such a bad idea. Even if you stumble onto something that works without killing everyone, you have to consistently do it for many centuries.

Europe (alongside the USA and other countries of the "western world") has been releasing disgusting amounts of climate change-inducing gases since the 18th century, and they (alongside the USA) were the main profiteers of climate pollution until the latter half of the 20th century. Arguably still are, though other countries like China and Brazil also play a part now.

Granted, this treats nations as monoliths, it's not like the population of most countries really had a choice for the most part.