Comment by jraph
1 month ago
> a human to draw something will require more water.
That human would require the same amount of water whether you ask them to draw or not, and would exist anyway because they are not born for productivity reasons. "Creation" of humans isn't driven by the amount of work to accomplish.
You are not causing more water to be used by asking a human to work on something.
Same for energy consumption.
This argument doesn't work at all.
What you do for humans to use fewer resources is to work on making us produce less garbage, and produce things using techniques that are less resource-intensive.
> You are not causing more water to be used by asking a human to work on something.
That's certainly not true. Asking me to think hard about something will cause me to burn more calories. Asking me to do physical work even more so.
Would you be completely at rest if you were not asked to produce stuff?
Do you think AI replaces our hard thinking and our physical work?
AI or not, I personally intend to keep thinking and my physical activity.
I don't do any moral judgement at all, and I also don't predict the future.
I respond to "You are not causing more water to be used by asking a human to work on something.", because that statement is false. (Mental) work has an effect on the human metabolism.
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