Greed Is Good—Even if It Kills Us All?

[ralfyman]

I read somewhere that the cost of querying AI platforms is many times greater in terms of electricity usage than doing the same in a search engine.


At some point, that higher cost has to be paid for.

[Cida]

Originally Posted by sheerbliss

Tech companies keeping the money they made is going to kill us?

The idea being that we just need to throw more money at these problems and they'll go away, despite all the money that's already been thrown at them.

Well, tech moguls, taking in a huge amount of money, sometimes from quasi-monopolies (Amazon, Facebook), keeping it to spend on selfish and outlandish projects, would lead to further inequality which, yes, could kill us.

[moguldreamer]

The sheer quantity of economic misinformation in this thread is mind-boggling.