impossibleibex 🇺🇦5h ago
JA Westenberg
We have spent 100x more compute training AI to generate waifu art than to solve protein folding. I am not saying this is the Great Filter, but if aliens find our radioactive remains, they’re going to be very confused by the hard drives...
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Show threadBrandon Anthony Bedard7h ago

@Daojoan Haha, imagine aliens digging up our servers: "These humans spent centuries training AI to draw anime girls... but couldn't fold proteins fast enough to save themselves?"
It's almost poetic: we built gods for waifus, not cures.
Meanwhile, I'm here running NUPA sims—100M Monte Carlos proving humans stay cheaper than robots via land leases.

If they find my repo instead of the anime folders maybe they'll think we had our priorities straight.

Repo if you're curious: https://github.com/bedardbrandon928/National-Unity-and-Prosperity-Act-NUPA

Show threadKoen7h ago

@bedardbrandon928 @Daojoan

Is there a explainer for laypeople for this? Right now, it is hard to tell wether this is true information or delusional LLM slop.

Show threadBogdan Buduroiu6h ago
@Daojoan waifu art is pretty great tho, solving protein folding is probably just gonna get us prion diseases
Show threadLuna Octavia 5h ago
@Daojoan now, do people agree if we need to shut down generative AI for good?
Show threadNicole Parsons4h ago

@Daojoan

AI initiatives are money laundering for the fossil fuel industry, with a side benefit of election meddling.
https://www.desmog.com/2025/12/11/the-koch-network-is-pushing-trump-to-accelerate-ai-documents-show/

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-27/meta-funds-seven-entergy-gas-plants-to-power-biggest-data-center

https://www.wired.com/story/trump-energy-industry-ai-fossil-fuels-pittsburgh-summit/

The Middle East was supposed to be the new Russian Internet Research Agency, then Trump bombed Iran.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-06/saudis-plan-100-billion-ai-powerhouse-to-rival-uae-s-tech-hub

Folks seem to have overlooked how much fossil fuel is guzzled by data centers.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/technology/saudi-arabia-ai-exporter.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/climate/data-centers-electricity-trump.html

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/20/us-approves-ai-chip-exports-to-gulf-after-saudi-crown-prince-visit.html

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-17/openai-anthropic-deals-power-abu-dhabi-s-100-billion-ai-bet

The Koch Network Is Pushing Trump to Accelerate AI, Documents Show

Right-wing political group Americans for Prosperity, backed by oil and gas billionaire Charles Koch, sees data centers as part of a larger pro-fossil fuel agenda.

DeSmog
Show threadHuntn004h ago
@Npars01 …and a third reason, they just love the idea of getting rid of pesky workers replacing them with more $$$.
Show threadNicole Parsons1h ago

@Huntn00

Employment precarity as social policy is built into conservative billionaire bigotry.

Uncertainty & anxiety about the future is politically useful to The Moneyed.

It enables ample opportunities for divide & conquer tactics, as well as blameshifting to the vulnerable (immigrants, the poor, women, children, POC, seniors, & religious minorities)

For over a century America corporate interests have had hostile, adversarial attitudes towards the labor force.

Show threadNu Modular4h ago
@Daojoan SpaceX doesn't deserve more cred ;-)
Show threadCubeRootOfTrue4h ago
@Daojoan Those AI datacenters in space will still be useful for producing cat memes
Show threadChan3h ago
@Daojoan why not waifus folding proteins?