

I’m convinced this is on purpose. Politicians always say “we can’t get rid of dirty energy until we have enough clean energy to replace it.” Suddenly, when clean energy is good enough to replace it, businesses decide this shitty inefficient technology is needed, and it gobles up any power available. This creates a situation where we can never remove dirty energy because, no matter how much clean energy is produced, all the energy is also consumed.
I can’t know for sure this is on purpose, but the timing sure is convenient for them. It makes the excuse to never regulate dirty energy perpetual.
I also think crypto could have been part of this scheme, but it suddenly died because “AI” is even better for the task of wasting energy.
I’ve tried using LLMs to name games for game jams and wow it’s bad. It tends to recommend almost exclusively alliteration. There’s nothing creative or interesting that comes out of it.