cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/21623016
Jensen Huang, the CEO of supercomputer chip-maker Nvidia, has for years claimed that his company’s artificial intelligence products, as some of the most advanced scientific tools in history, will help the world solve climate change, warning last year that “climate disasters are now normal.”
Yet Huang is now loudly cozying up to U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright, even though Wright is fully on board with the Trump administration’s climate denial policies.
A so-called “climate science” report Wright’s Department of Energy released in July has been condemned by scores of scientists as “biased, full of errors, and not fit to inform policymaking.” The report is part of the administration’s effort to overturn the scientific basis for regulating greenhouse gas emissions as pollution — the 2009 endangerment finding — under the Clean Air Act.
his company’s artificial intelligence products, as some of the most advanced scientific tools in history, will help the world solve climate change
Remember that joke about asking an AI to solve traffic, and when it responds with “Use trains” the user declares it must be broken?
“Stop burning fossil fuels and reduce emissions? That can’t be right!”
bro is fellating autocrats left and right
I work in O&G and my own CEO - who has long and loud been a climate skeptic - decided he was finally turning a corner on the EPA in our last All Hands Meeting. The guy very loudly and proudly announced that the Federal Government (which is suddenly extremely trustworthy and reputable!) has released an abundance of New Data (no, we can’t see it) that categorically proves what we’ve been doing is good for the planet.
Like, at this point, I’m pot-committed to sucking at the teet of the Permian Basin. And I honestly can’t complain too loudly, because someone in middle management realized a few years back that if you plug all the leaks in your gas mains, you not only help the environment but save a fuckton of money. Identifying and plugging leaks via drone surveillance (and proving out the cost savings) has been my job for the last three years.
But holy fuck do I ever get tired of hearing this asshole yap about how good petrochemicals are for the economy, the country, and the planet. I’m already sucking your dick, you don’t need to lie to me about how it tastes.
Why do you still work there if you feel this way? Working for oil and gas is only supporting the existing order, and most people in O&G have very transferable skillsets.
In the perfect world we’d only ever do what our integrity and self-worth would allow us, but this isn’t the perfect world.
Give him a break, he’s the guy plugging leaks. Better to have someone competent doing it than not.
Capital always breaks fascist
More like passion for making you profits.
