cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/12007518
This is the guy who built up the Wolfenstein, Doom, and Quake engines, btw. I knew he was a notorious techlib, but wasn’t expecting this much.
I also hate Doom 3. Graphics are ass even for that day’s standards, and gameplay feels more like a tech demo than a video game. Do whatever you want with it.
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I knew he was a notorious techlib, but wasn’t expecting this much.
Yeah he’s a transphobe who kept misgendering Rebecca Heineman. Honestly a piece of shit.
Ah, but have you considered…what if instead of supporting bad thing, I was supporting good thing? I am very intelligent.
“Consider it like -completely unrelated, different and vital infrastructure-, doesn’t seem so smart now huh?”
Something that produces a lot of electricity is actually just as good as something that wastes a lot of electricity.
Did you know that at any one time people are only using 1% of the oxygen in their houses?
That’s why I’ve made an invention that can put your unused air assets to work for you. It only consumes the oxygen that you aren’t breathing this moment, and turns it into energy that you can get credit for.
Have you always liked data centers, and always wanted to own one? Well now you can do the next best thing.
would people protesting power plants be sensible
A better comparison would be people protesting pipelines being built through their bodies of water without permission. In which case yes I know multiple people with permanent injuries from protesting
The guy who made games about fighting techno-occult forces of pure evil feeding on the life force of the living supports building data centers.
The plot came from John Romero, Tom Hall, and Sandy Petersen afaik. He was just the guy with C++ skills, he can’t write shit.
Protesting against power plants is also not uncommon and often warranted.
And yeah it’s weird how Carmack gets put on a pillar. Sure he has made some important innovations in video games but he isn’t unique in that.
He was lucky id Software had very capable people during that time. His coding skills couldn’t save id from falling into obscurity between Quake and Doom '16.
For real, he’s acting like it’s a net good like a well-maintained solar facility when really it’s more of a “We’re going to build a coal plant and ruin the water table for generations” scenario
I’m pretty sure he defended coal plants for more electricity to juice up the internet connection or something.
Once saw a chief ai officer say that AI will be more important than electricity
AI interface of gears running entirely on petroleum.
Of course it will, you can just ask Grok to generate electricity for itself!
Quantify the harms? Pretty easy actually. Vast expenditures of water and electricity, environmental destruction, etc. we could put exact numbers on these pretty easy. In fact here’s a quick result doing a bit of that.
Now quantify the value of data centers. Vast is not a number and I’m taking now not some always shifting future value.
Weird how these types insist on data and numbers except when it doesn’t suit them
All right then. You go without electricity for a year, and I’ll go without AI for a year, and we’ll see who fares better. Deal?
“qUaNtIfY tHe hArMs fOr Me” how about fuck you?
You see, Mr. Carmax, the data center is the Spider Mastermind and we're all the Doomguy
Name me FIVE good reasons for AI outside of “funny meme picture (which often sucks), fetish material, coding troubleshooting” bet you can’t.
I’d ask him that if I had Xitter account.
The Chinese seem to use ai to good effects. That inside China business guy does a lot of videos on it.
Yeah I was being hyperbolic, there are some good uses but the vast majority I’ve seen the boosters of ai want it for it silly stuff.
I like LLM because I’m a bum who’s too lazy to properly summarize the lecture book chapters.
“The value of AI will be [vast] as well”
Will.
The most meaningless word in business.
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