Comment by azinman2

9 months ago

Please don’t suggest heating the ocean! Someone might just go to try to do that. The ocean is already warming too much!

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jamessinghal  9 months ago

It's a bit demoralizing how many suggestions in this thread would have significant environmental effects beyond what large scale AI training already has.

  • dzhiurgis  9 months ago

    It's far far faaar more demoralizing people not realizing orders of magnitude...

    Something like 2/3rds of sunshine is already being absorbed by oceans. How much solar power do humans harvest? A billionth?

    • jamessinghal  9 months ago

      I'm talking about the above proposals (albiet hypothetical) to either cover a pole of our planet in solar and other ocean based proposals--not solar in general.

  • smus  9 months ago

    It's a bit demoralizing people talk about AI training as if it were even 1/100th the environmental impact of the personal automobile or frequent airplane trips

matt-p  9 months ago

It's already being done all over the place. It's not particularly damaging compared to the alternatives.