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> If you stop burning carbon, you fall back on other types of energy. In the long term, you will win. That's quite altruistic. > If you stop training AIs, ano
by drewcoo 4y ago
> If you stop burning carbon, you fall back on other types of energy. In the long term, you will win.
That's quite altruistic.
> If you stop training AIs, another company or state will keep on training AI and will outsmart you, you will be poor or get oppressed in the long term.
Competition trumps altruism with AI? Why not with burning fossil fuels?
If you stop burning fossil fuels, you're going to use more expensive systems instead. Why wouldn't some competitor continue to use cheap fossil fuels and outcompete you? When you need more electricity, you'll buy it from the cheap, dirty players, right?
- nuancebydefault 3y agoOn the short term, dirty means cheap. But on the longer term the renewable resources will be cheapest. Renewable has a big up-front cost. The huge infrastructure and logistics for fossil burning energy production is already in place.