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On the one hand: fuck AI driving up these emissions for no useful fucking reason
On the other hand: fuck carbon credits - they’re universally scams perpetuated by “preventing deforestation” or other inane solutions.
The future solutions are always going to be reduction and drawdown. They’re only funding drawdown now, because they’re not even trying to reduce emissions.
We do need drawdown in the future but it shouldn’t distract from replacing our polluting infrastructure. Kill gas cars. Death to coal plants. Natural gas needs to stay in the ground.
If Google were funding that they’d actually be doing good.
Sure but that’s specialist models.
Generalist models are stagnant and show little potential for progress.