Even pure scientific discovery is an aggressive, penetrative act… There is always some proof that scientists were there, making their discoveries. Discovery is always a rape of the natural world. Always.
To call the unimpeded development of AI data centers anything other than the rape of the natural world is confusing to me. It’s a very apt description, I think, and what Gretchen has admitted to is that she’s willing to rape the world. Explicitly against the wishes of the people.
If your position is that the rampant creation of data centers and their environmental impact is not the rape of the natural world, then I can’t really help you. We fundamentally disagree there.
Edit: That’s Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park, by the way.
To call the unimpeded development of AI data centers anything other than the rape of the natural world is confusing to me.
Yes, and if the comment I replied to, which started this side conversation, had contained such explicit context I wouldn’t have had a problem with it. But in fact it was a top-level comment that simply said, “That’s called being a rapist everybody,” leaving the meaning of “that” up to the reader. I took it to mean a state governor getting caught callously disregarding the will of her public. You might be preoccupied with AI and datacenters, but I think politicians not doing their jobs is a much larger issue - because if we really had representative government the public would be able to stop datacenters when they wanted to, not to mention handling other important issues.
So much verbiage and analysis for objecting to calling political lies “rape”. I’m not gonna argue this - I guess just consult a dictionary.
To call the unimpeded development of AI data centers anything other than the rape of the natural world is confusing to me. It’s a very apt description, I think, and what Gretchen has admitted to is that she’s willing to rape the world. Explicitly against the wishes of the people.
If your position is that the rampant creation of data centers and their environmental impact is not the rape of the natural world, then I can’t really help you. We fundamentally disagree there.
Edit: That’s Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park, by the way.
Yes, and if the comment I replied to, which started this side conversation, had contained such explicit context I wouldn’t have had a problem with it. But in fact it was a top-level comment that simply said, “That’s called being a rapist everybody,” leaving the meaning of “that” up to the reader. I took it to mean a state governor getting caught callously disregarding the will of her public. You might be preoccupied with AI and datacenters, but I think politicians not doing their jobs is a much larger issue - because if we really had representative government the public would be able to stop datacenters when they wanted to, not to mention handling other important issues.