Post #1376250
2026-04-17 11:27 UTC
I care about AI's effect on the environment, but i'm worried we've already created lasting destruction with putting the entire economy into AI the last few years. Every day i think about all the money that has been siphoned off from the macro level investments to the micro level - all institutions pivoting their projects and focus from whatever useful thing they were doing before to AI.
Some of the $$ + labor would have been spent on infrastructure or social goods. But now it's gone, poof.
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@j_feral@digipres.club 2026-04-17 11:31
So things crumble, progress stops, because all the money is now in a few companies' executives' pockets instead of our tax base. So much deferred maintenance and backsliding social services.