Post #3496975

@JustinMac84@mastodon.social There's also this. Is my $20 Claude subscription generating Anthropic boatloads of revenue? Is the Amazon order I placed last week the thing those managing Amazon look at and go oh thank God, he saved us? No. It's pretty well known that, for example, Claude subscriptions are not economically sustainable in the long term. I'm dragging them down if anything. Amazon doesn't make most of its money from orders like mine. I usually dismiss people for the "Don't use this it's bad you're wrong for doing it" takes. Rarely do they ever offer a better alternative. Meanwhile your employer wants you to use AI. Everyone from kids to grandparents orders from Amazon. If I quit either one of those today, nobody's gonna care or notice. Finally, and this is my favorite. I doubt the majority of folks who criticize are using custom built computers assembled from components built by small businesses using only green energy to power their operations. I doubt that all the electricity in most of said individuals' houses is all solar or hydro. I'm sure most of them also use air conditioning. They either commute or order delivery that is driven to them in gas powered vehicles. So I guess I'd think twice about telling off a random individual on the internet for ruining the planet while my post and... lifestyle, are powered by fossil fuels and natural gas. That is not to dismiss the genuine warnings against these things. There is a way to tell people about the disadvantages of the things they use every day. Shaming them is not it, though. I can't take that shit seriously.