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"There's no way to get there without a breakthrough," OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said, arguing that AI will soon need even more energy.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Get rid of bitcoin and you solve the energy problem.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Subsidize retrofitting the entire nation with solar and invert it back into the grid

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Is the answer people? I think I’ve seen this movie before.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So will AI (or more accurately LLM) be the push needed to make limitless fusion energy a reality?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Obviously not. We’re being faced with an existential threat if we don’t secure alternative, sustainable forms of energy and even that threat isn’t enough to motivate our species.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Wow, I fucking hate this guy the more he opens his mouth. He can seriously fuck off right now, if he thinks AI realistically needs him at this point he's sadly mistaken.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

The positive thing there is that it probably paces our development. If we can't get to true AGI without way more energy than we can currently produce, then we don't have true AGI risk right now.

There's still risk because it might not be true or we might be able to get close enough to do damage. But slowing down AI is fine by me.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

He's going after the beryllium agitator, someone stop him.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Man, if only there was some sort of energy source that is not only green and renewable, but also outputs a ton of energy rather efficiently…

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Oh man, I clicked that link really hoping you were going to link to a Dyson Sphere.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (9 children)

yes, but extremely toxic and radioactive waste tho.

thorium could be an option

fusion could be an option

or... ya know, we just continue expanding solar and wind energy until we have one of the above.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, no reason to ever think of alternate options. Just push one or two things until they magically work for everything somehow.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago
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