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Food that people and livestock eat is less valuable than data centers used to chase the "AGI any day now" pipe dream? You're kidding right?
by EA-3167 1y ago
Food that people and livestock eat is less valuable than data centers used to chase the "AGI any day now" pipe dream? You're kidding right?
- morkalork 1y agoLet the people eat and drink slop
- UncleOxidant 1y ago* AI slop
- JumpCrisscross 1y ago> Food that people and livestock eat is less valuable than data centers This is objectively false, particularly when we consider that much of that food and water are exported. It’s also irrelevant in Tucson, which doesn’t have Central Valley syndrome.
- EA-3167 1y agoYou... do understand that it isn't exported to be incinerated, it's exported in return for money, and then people and livestock in other countries eat that food. The fact that there's a transaction in the middle of the process doesn't change the value proposition, just like the absurd overvaluation of all things AI doesn't change the value proposition there either.
- JumpCrisscross 1y ago> it's exported in return for money Which is also paid for data centre access. We need food production as a matter of survival. That doesn’t mean all food production is inherently more valuable than everything else. We let most food spoil without being eaten because it’s more efficient to do that than treat every calorie as precious. > just like the absurd overvaluation of all things AI doesn't change the value proposition there either Literally does. There are good arguments against a data centre in Tucson. “We could grow food with that water” isn’t one of them.