I'd care if they were a government that gave their citizens proper human rights and didn't have clearly stated expansionist goals at their neighbor's expense. Never mind that they're constantly going after us with hacks as well.

With things as they are now I don't really care.

Of course the article you're posting under is about a broad based drop in test scores and student comprehension as well as some evidence that those kids who depend more on AI turn out dumber so what you just wrote has nothing to do with any of this.

Pffft, billionaire air travel and the like is the tiniest drop in the bucket that is global warming. If that's enough to turn you off from making any effort then you just plain don't give a shit and would just find something else as an excuse if blaming billionaires wasn't available.

The problem is schools aren't adjusting correctly to new realities. What we need is a shift to in class work making up the bulk of grades so kids can't use AI and have to use their brains instead. Sending kids home with homework nowadays is more or less pointless if AI is just going to do it for them.

"Hard left"? At least in terms of economics youve gotta go to other countries to find anything hard left. Even Bernie Sanders isn't hard left given how completely mainstream most of his economic policy is in the rest of the world.

Oh good, a .5C decline in temp when we're already at nearly 1.5C in total warming.

The denialism involved with global warming is ridiculous when the basics of it are so simple. Elements like carbon and methane retain more heat then other elements in our atmosphere. This is something you could even test at home with the right stuff. Altering our atmospheric mix to include more of these elements therefore increases the heat retention of the atmosphere.

As far as I understand it plug-ins are more or less the same as non plug-in hybrids aside from larger batteries in the former (and I guess a plug). PHEVs definitely use regenerative braking, it would be silly of them not to.

My non plug-in hybrid should get far worse mileage then a plug-in due to the smaller battery and the fact that the battery only charges with regenerative breaking and the engine (which plug-ins can also do) as opposed to using an external power source. This is why I'm pointing out the fact that this study doesn't add up to my own casual observations because if my car does so much better then what this study is showing then a plug-in should do even better still.

I'm not really getting your post including your part about Americans but I'll do my best here

I'm an American and I look at the absolute comparison of raw output and immediately want context. Breaking down power usage by some sort of metric related to the size of the country seems like the only way to make sense of a number like that to me. It wouldn't be meaningful to point out that Luxemburg is massively behind the US in raw output for instance. It would be meaningful to look at power output on a per capita basis when comparing the two countries though.

I wouldn't, to limit my caffeine intake I pretty much limit things like caffeinated beverages to work only where I get free coffee anyways that's actually pretty good. Never mind most Americans use drip makers at home.

I'm not at all denying that these things can be useful, on average Americans just have less uses for them and you can literally see this fact play out in their low ownership rates over here. I know instant ramen (which I haven't eaten in meaningful amounts since college) or fresh ravioli (something I eat incredibly rarely) aren't exactly bringing me around in getting one of these for myself. If you feel you're getting good use out of yours though, good for you.

The real issue here is that this guy would likely never have been able to get a gun to begin with in most other countries. Unarmed cops do fine when you don't let just any asshole buy a gun and we know this by looking at other countries.

The thing is is that we want renewables out faster then what the free market would produce on its own as time is of the essence in fighting global warming. The canceling of these projects will in fact lead to reduced roll out which means more emissions we'll have to deal with. It's going to be a looong time before we completely free our economies of green house gas emissions so any reductions we can make now will help reduce the problems we face in the coming decades.

Yes, in total amount generated. Meanwhile what I'm pointing out is that turns out to be half of what we generate when broken down on a per capita basis. Remember, electricity isn't just for AI.

Appeal to authority: non existent

I wasn't establishing authority, I was just pointing out he wasn't a Chinese mouthpiece.

I just don't think there's a case for him being a Chinese mouthpiece is all I'm saying.

Good point as it turns out that on average they do in fact use half of what we do per capita https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... .

That would put them at parity with us though, not clearly in the lead as the article seems to be making out.