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Wow, who would have thought?
It seems the AI hype is shrinking (or at least slowing down), since people are more and more critical of it: intellectual property, workers rights, power consumption, climate impacts, usefulness and more.
If you want more reading, I recommend these:
I can’t recommend Ed Zitron’s blog enough: Where’s your Ed at
He did an interview with Adam Conover a month ago, which was also really interesting.
The other blog I highly recommend is The Luddite, e.g. Why is there an AI hype?
Username checks out 🏴☠️
I will also never buy a spaceship /j
To quote the post more specifically:
Even as our species destroys its only home, we assume that the solutions to climate change must lie in technology, without stopping to examine the role that this very attitude has played in the crisis.
This is so deeply ingrained in our social consciousness that, when there is a new impressive technology, we assume that it must be here to solve one of our big problems. As the AI hype quickens the pace of our ecological devastation, we’re so dazzled by the technology that there is actual debate in supposedly serious publications as to whether AI is going to save us from climate change, despite all evidence pointing to the contrary.
Exactly, if we do a back of the napkin calculation:
There are 200 million bitcoin wallets, let’s be generous and say those are all owned by unique individuals.
Bitcoin used about 114 TWh in 2021[1]
Bitcoin currently uses about 150 TWh annually
150 TWh / year
————————— = 0,75 TWh / user / year
200 million users
There are over 8 billion people on the planet today, let’s assume 4 billion of them have access to the global banking system.
The global banking system used an estimated 264 TWh in 2021[1]
If we assume the same consumption increase rate for banking, that’s about 348 TWh/year currently.
348 TWh / year
————————— = 0,087 TWh / user / year
4.000 million users
With these numbers, bitcoin uses almost 10x the energy per user annually.
There are of course a myriad of things one can argue over whether it makes a fair comparison, none of which I feel like arguing, since this is just a really simple estimate with a lot of assumptions.
1: I used the numbers in this article uncritically, if you have better numbers you can run your own calculations.
That seems more sensible.
But they still can track some of the things you do (same with any untrusted wifi network):
The best thing is to use a different device, period.
Since the company is lord and master over the device, in theory, they can see anything you’re doing.
Maybe not decrypting wireguard traffic in practice, but still see that you’re doing non-official things on the device that are probably not allowed. They might think you’re a whistleblower or a corporate spy or something.
I have no idea where you work, but if they install a CA they’re probably have some kind of monitoring to see what programs are installed/running.
If the company CA is all you’re worried about, running a browser that uses its own CA list should be enough.
I third Mullvad
Check it out yourself: https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy
If you’ll pardon the pun,
This feels like a god-tier shitpost