Sam Altman, the high priest of Silicon Valley, told us this week that we shouldn’t complain about AI’s masive energy use because “humans consume a lot of energy too.”

In other words: stop whining, carbon-based peasants-your children are the real environmental problem. Do you know how much energy it takes to raise and educate one of those inefficient little mammals.

And these are the people deciding the fate of potentially the most dangerous technology ever built.

https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/21/sam-altman-would-like-remind-you-that-humans-use-a-lot-of-energy-too/

Sam Altman would like to remind you that humans use a lot of energy, too | TechCrunch

"It also takes a lot of energy to train a human."

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@Climatehistories to them, id say, "aaand?"

we exist for us, humans, not to waste lots of energy on a slop machine

these people are completely out of touch with reality

@Climatehistories I hope he gets so dehydrated competitively masturbating with a robot that the robot mercy-unplugs him.
@Climatehistories Some weird nominal determinism where he is building an alt(ternative) to (hu)man(s).
@Climatehistories somehow I feel that view relates to this (especially the graph posted in the replies) https://radikal.social/@henry/116143876277203506
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Attached: 1 image Obsessed with this quote from an AI bro who is under the impression that horses "can do whatever they want now" as a result of the invention of the car.

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@Climatehistories New Scientist has a thing where readers write in with examples of nominative determinism where a person’s name matches their jobs description. Altman is trying to make an alt man. Beautiful!
#ai #newscientist
@Climatehistories The deeply unserious y combinator con man has opened his mouth again. Sigh.

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spoken like a real lizard person

@Climatehistories Kyle Hill ran the numbers. As usual, Sam Altman is waaaaay off: https://youtube.com/shorts/9z-qLepQHRE
Sam Altman Sucks at Math

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