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Nelly Bryce's avatar

Yes to all of this. I was talking about a similar point to a friend yesterday. About how I wish I (personally) was doing better on my climate impact. Basically. And then we kinda came to the point that if we put our energy instead towards protesting against huge oil companies or water firms polluting rivers, actually that’d be better use of time (and guilt/sadness etc). Everything you say. Beating ourselves up actually keeps the status quo. Collective action is required. Thanks for this article

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TAD's avatar

Yes! This is incredibly insightful; I'm a software engineer and when I tell my peers that I have finally gotten to a point that I use absolutely zero A.I. they look at me like I'm committing career suicide, but I think I have been failing to communicate to them that it isn't about moral purity or intellectual superiority, but rather the importance of acknowledging the impact.

Of course none of us are individually responsible for the environmental disasters that A.I. is going to cause, but that doesn't mean we should ignore them nor obsess over them to the extreme. Freedom is not a destination, and we only have so much energy to spend; it's just about doing what we can, not doing everything all at once.

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