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HOPE XV (2024): AI, Solarpunk, and an Uncertain Future in Computing (youtu.be)

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Presented by @rolltime@freeradical.zone
Recorded Fri 12 Jul 2024
Uploaded Fri 22 Nov 2024
Slides, references & links: https://rollti.me/hope2024

»For more than a year now, "AI" has been the tech world's most expensive obsession.

The scramble to burn money as fast as possible is both unprecedented and utterly familiar - but not every resource is as endless as venture capital funding. AI technology's energy consumption is beginning to approach that of a small country, and it shows no signs of shrinking.

How can we reconcile our hunger to compute with the need to avert ecological devastation? Is it possible for progress and sustainability to coexist? And how can hackers help computers save themselves?

This talk brings a fresh perspective to discussions on the problems, possibilities, and future of the human relationship to computing.»

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[–] wackJackle@norden.social 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

@larsweisbrod Es ist nicht so, dass es da draußen nicht welche gibt, die an einem 'Mittelweg' arbeiten. Als jemand der 'Solarpunk' im Profil stehen hat, freut es mich zudem, wieviel das mittlerweile überall im Gespräch ist. Behind the doom there have to be something.

[–] socrates@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 day ago

Likewise. It is encouraging to see discussion on the topic.

It will be useful to encourage more structured and public discussion to allow wider change to occur.