Post #1627510

2026-04-24 09:31 UTC

Regarding Altman’s claim that humans consume a lot of energy (*): humans' energy consumption is proportional to their wealth, because wealth production requires energy. Wealth is roughly Pareto distributed, which means very few people own most of it and most people own very little: in 2021, 1.1% of the world's population owned 45.8% of world wealth, and is therefore responsible for almost half of the energy consumption and consequently of greenhouse gas emissions. (1/2) #FrugalComputing

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@wim_v12e@scholar.social 2026-04-24 09:31

This may seem a bold and somewhat handwavey claim, but this paper https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-025-02325-x did a more in-depth analysis and concludes that 10% wealthiest people of the world contributed 66% of the emissions. Because it is a Pareto distribution, the 1.1% will therefore be responsible for the majority of those emissions, at least 33% (using the 80:20 rule, 2% would contribute 53%). (2/2) #FrugalComputing (*) https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/21/sam-altman-would-like-remind-you-that-humans-use-a-lot-of-energy-too/

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@minentromaxinfo@defcon.social 2026-04-24 10:30

@wim_v12e Of all the silly things this sociopathic conman has said, this is one of the silliest. I'll take a human in a coma for my team before I added AI.

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@felipe@social.treehouse.systems 2026-04-24 11:14

@wim_v12e matrix machine vibes off them

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