Looking for answers from an LLM at the same time as this is happening is depraved
@urlyman Yr not wrong. Normalising over-use of computers for 'convenience' is as bad for our brains as unsustainable irrigation is for our ecosystems - it's as though everyone's agreed not to look at shrivelling groundwater stocks around the world. USA Midwest, taking longer but will also soon be gone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogallala_Aquifer
@SusiArnott the things we do are not stupid until they rip our lives to shreds. But then it won’t be us what done it, it will be everyone else
…We find it very difficult to stop doing harmful things we’re already deeply socialised into. The absolute minimum we can do is to not socialise ourselves into new levels of abject stupidity
…But, every Tuesday I have two meetings, both of which are recorded by AI.
I have voiced my displeasure at this, but my sensibility towards it has already lost.
I fucking hate the stupidity of it. Yet I also know that we just have to wait for this fever to crash. And bring over 40% of the S&P 500 with it, with all the fallout that comes with that
…Hopefully, all sorts of other abject stupidities like the more than 130,000 flights taken per day will crash too.
Roughly speaking, an hour in a plane will emit 250kg of CO2 per person. In other words, a person getting somewhere quickly by air shits about the weight of 4 other people in climate heating gases into the air *per hour*.
But we can’t see just how fucking stupid that is. Invisible gases boiling our asses. So it’s not happening, right?
…”Oh, but don’t you know that mile for mile flying is about the same impact as driving an ICE car?”
Yes, I do know.
And that’s fucking stupid too.
It’s not personal. I do fucking stupid things I’ve been socialised into doing too.
But let’s admit to ourselves that they are fucking stupid. You don’t get a pass. And I don’t either.
The ‘normal’ things we do are dangerously super abnormal
@urlyman It's the number of km that we travel which causes the problem. Flying is especially dangerous because people travel further. 10000 km in a day. You don't make journeys that long by car.
All powered modes of transport have fairly comparable emissions per km (yes, even trains once you include the cost of their specialized infrastructure).
If we consume fewer kms then we reduce our impact on the planet. Relying primarily upon human powered transport reduces impact to a minimum.
@hembrow precisely.
We’re gong to have to learn the hard way that being hyper mobile destroys the option to be hyper mobile
@urlyman I have similar problems with meetings. Well meaning, good people who are so socialised into Zoom that they are deaf to alternatives. The same people use WhatsApp extensively for organising events which under the current regime are deeply political. When the fallout you’ve described (or the one after it, or after that) occurs I have no doubt the data on us will survive it and be used in population control.
