Bodil (@bodil@treehouse.systems)

I've been wanting to write something lengthy about "AI" for a while, discussing the arguments for and against and arriving at a reasonable position, but I find myself completely unable to get past the most glaring point, which is that we are facing *catastrophic ecosphere collapse* because of capitalist overconsumption. Our species is literally *committing suicide by capitalism* right in front of my eyes and the architects of the climate crisis have latched onto data centres with the energy budgets of countries running sycophantic Markov chains as their latest engine of short term profit extraction and people are split right down the middle either happily burning the world down to keep continvoucly morging or whatever the newest slop models tell them to do next, or existing in a state of angry refusal to believe that anything is wrong as everything crumbles into ash around them other than that some people have the wrong skin colour or gender presentation. \*deep breath\* The few of us who don't starve to death as our food sources collapse may eventually die of *asphyxiation* when the wrong Amazon finishes burning down. How do you get past that? How does one even hope to connect with people who prioritise dismantling the structures of capitalism before it kills us all *lower* than asking Claude for coding tips? I guess we know what the Great Filter is now.

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