Or...and hear me out...maybe instead we blast AI data centers with these Jewish space lasers I keep hearing about and leave the land to return to nature? Just spitballin'.

Fuck You, Eric.

I guess Google really did just change their motto to 'be evil'

"We should all max out and default on 1 billion credit cards because we'll never pay out all debts". Maybe if we frame it that way the religious capitalists will get it.

If we're all f***** anyway, I think that justifies a lot of bad behavior. Why don't people burn his house and company to the ground tomorrow? After all, law and order won't matter when the environment goes to hell.

There's a danger when you advocate abandoning all hope of survival and you haven't yet figured out immortality for yourself.

Seems painfully relevant.

Fun fact about Eric Schmidt: he’s a moron

And you might be thinking, well yea, I can read the headline. But that’s not even what I’m talking about.

Inside google a bunch of engineers wanted to make chrome, you know that browser everyone uses and gives google an even more unfair strategic advantage. They literally had to hide this effort from Eric Schmidt because he’s a bean counting moron. He has negative strategic vision and would have killed the project.

Listening to this man prognosticate about anything is pointless. This is a man leading google that couldn’t see the value in owning the browser platform, he might be the dumbest person on earth.

Had a planet full of resources, and thousands of years of rich and interesting cultural development.

Decided to spend all the resources grinding all that culture into a bland paste.

Is… is humanity a shitpost?

This guy never cared about our environment in the first place.

That's a serious dickhead. Others may try but this guy delivers a master class.

That’s pretty cool. Fuck everyone born after now, I guess. Shitbag.

"Oh well, we lived golden age, tough luck for those young today, fuck'em lmao"

That would make sense if we were all going to blink out of existence*, but we're going to still be here, with raisable and lowerable levels of suffering.

"My toe is already stubbed, no reason not to cut both my legs off"

*actually no it wouldn't because AI is still a massive threat even without the climate getting worse from it.

"we gotta find SOMETHING, SOMEWHERE, SOMEHOW to justify all this AI garbage or it's gonna tank the company."

The most overvalued market is the tech market. The value of all of those cards and circuits are maintained purely through the existence of key monopolies in their production. It's also the one generation the most unrecycable shit, at least not without consequences to the environment. And now they want to build AI data centers so we can finish making the world warm enough that it is not even possible to run AI data centers due to climate conditions. Brilliant.

The actual quote is kess stupid, but still stupid.

Clearly sets up "AI" versus "climate" dynamic. Also calls "AI" an "alien intelligence".

If we are all going to die by our stupidity anyway, we might as well speed up the process so our last moments will be with better AI to generate more realistic porn images.

I mean, the survival of the planet might be important to some, but the profits of mega corps is more important. Billionaires need to figure out how to travel to Mars so they can chill there before the earth turns to Venus. They need our money for that, and AI to replace annoying poor humans when they live in their Mars mansion.

That’s a stupid reaso, but I’d buy: we should go all in on ai data centers since that’s a new economic sector that we can dominate, plus it’s less polluting than lusting after a coal industry that never was or steel that never will be again

Not even going to pretend that AI investment will solve climate change then? Saying the quiet part out loud?

Speaking of former tech executives known for comically bad strategic decisions, Steve Ballmer was on the Daily Show recently and I was thought "this is the guy who said Linux was cancer and decided not to invest in mobile phones, can't take him seriously" but the guy seems to be doing some interesting stuff now, more interesting and less harmful than "AI" anyways. Has a site usafacts.com attempting to make hard data with reliable sources easily available for better political discussions. Seems better than some of these other billionaires with their "free speech" platforms and "alternative facts".