Dave corrected it in a subsequent post: On 1/14/25 09:15, Prof David West wrote:
excuse me, Pieter's optimisim, not Hochen's
On 1/15/25 14:39, Jochen Fromm wrote:
Who says I am optimistic? Your remark about data centers for LLMs, Bitcoins and other stuff like TikTok videos which increase global warming is accurate. I believe we are heading towards a collapse (!) of civilization (!!) in 10 or 20 years, not only because of climate change, but because our resources on the planet are depleted and because exponential growth on a finite planet is not possible. https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=how-everything-can-collapse-a-manual-for-our-times--9781509541386 The models have predicted long ago that a collapse will start now, in the middle between 2000 and 2050, and if I look at the incoming Trump administration and the L.A. wildfires I can not get rid of the impression that it has already begun http://bit-player.org/2012/world3-the-public-beta
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