You don't give a shit, but here's my take on A.I.
And of course I’ll not be kind.
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As most people working in the tech industry, I’m more and more confronted to Artificial “Intelligence” in daily life. The usage
It’s just reminding me something: I don’t hate A.I., I hate capitalism.
capitalism is a machine for crushing people #
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it makes people dumb1
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the system’s injunction to make us ever more productive (the famous “10x engineer” myth)
capitalism is a machine for crushing ecosystems #
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t destroys the planet2
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In France, 109 billions euros will be invested in AI 3. In comparision, the National Forests Office which preserves biodiversity and forests (around 25% of the French forest) in France has a budget of ~100 millions euros4.
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We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard ↩︎
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https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2025/02/09/intelligence-artificielle-avec-l-annonce-de-109-milliards-d-euros-d-investissement-emmanuel-macron-entend-se-mesurer-aux-etats-unis_6539184_3234.html ↩︎
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https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_national_des_for%C3%AAts#Budget ↩︎