the science has shown it is FAR more effective if 80% of the population masks just 30% more often (which is as simple as public transport, stores and medical appts) than our current model of 5-15% of the population masking 100% of the time
🚨 SAM ALTMAN: “People talk about how much energy it takes to train an AI model … But it also takes a lot of energy to train a human. It takes like 20 years of life and all of the food you eat during that time before you get smart.”
He's not just defending AI energy use. He is smuggling in a whole anthropology where humans are basically inefficient meat computers that you have to pour food and years into before they become useful. And once you accept that, the next move is obvious. If people are just costly biological training runs, then burning mountains of electricity to build synthetic intelligence starts to feel not only equal, but superior, even if it negatively impacts actual humans.
That is the dystopian. It makes human development sound like a bug in the system, and it makes sacrificing human and creational flourishing for more computational power sound logical. To him, the grid gets strained, prices go up, ecosystems get hit, but hey, humans eat too, so what's the difference?
The difference is that humans aren't an inefficient line item. They're the point. If your worldview can look at a child growing into an adult and describe it as energy spent to train intelligence, you haven't said something profound. You've revealed a horrifically rotten worldview.
A 13 year old girl tried to kill herself to escape the Dilley Camp.
They’re feeding children dirty nails.
They’re allowing measles to spread.
They’re detaining babies as young as two months old.
These kids are writing letters & drawing pictures begging to be released
Every time I see something like this I want to throw up because I was homeless with zero income & the IRS took $6k given to me by a church for housing out of my bank account