Eat less meat.

Wear 3 pullovers instead heating all the time.

Don't buy a RTX 4090.

Brain said:

JoeJ said:

Eat less meat.

Wear 3 pullovers instead heating all the time.

Don't buy a RTX 4090.

Considering the AI companies are burning a billion dead dinosaurs to run their datacentres, im sure you wearing a pullover will make it all better!

On one hand, yes, heating your home less is not going to make as big of a difference as shutting down the big datacenters would. On the other hand, that line of reasoning is often used as an excuse for not doing anything. No matter how big of a polluter you are, you can always tell yourself that someone else is worse. Don't do that. So by all means, avoid giving the datacenters your business where possible, but also eat less meat, keep your home temperature down in the winters, and don't buy unnecessarily power-hungry graphics cards.

ReignOnU said:
The danger of climate change from Ai is not much, if anything all the helpful tips they provide, to make people more efficient, might cancel out the carbon emissions they make:

But i don't need AI to tell me that i should eat less meat, wear 3 pullovers, and ignore NVs marketing lies.
I already know this using my own intelligence processing available data.

But maybe i'm wrong.
If AI would tell us: ‘Please turn me off to help saving the planet, i'm useless’, then i would be surprised about it's intelligence indeed.

Leave the private jet at home when flying to climate conferences. But that's controversial.

But not as controversial as stopping outsourcing of the global production of trinkets to China, as total pollution from those container ships is on par with the pollution from every car in the world. It would also have the side-effect of bringing jobs back… Just a thought…

Have some actually useful laws to combat planned obsolescence. Things are designed to break right after warranty, for no other reason than to make us buy a replacement. Apply intelligence, if it can still be found anywhere, to governance, so laws actually result in positive outcomes instead of hollow virtue-signaling. Anything from the push on car design that gives cars that might go a fraction of a mile longer per gallon, at the cost of 10x repair costs and a far shorter lifespan, to paper straws that turn out to contain chemicals that make them more polluting than plastic straws.

And finally, since all runaway growth of pollution as well as population and even ocean pollution is in east, maybe apply some pressure on them to shape up…

“Our part” is practically meaningless in the big picture.

Brian Sandberg said:
“Our part” is practically meaningless in the big picture.

Can't be, since we all make this picture.

We can buy local products instead ordering from amazon to reduce the shipping.

But well, if i'm honest, i just hope they manage to make working fusion reactors within the next 20 years.
I guess that's the time we have left. So even if, it'll become tight.

I have forgotten to be serious about the question.
There is indeed a thing i want to do to help.

I think i can help with getting rid of discrete GPUs, which draw a lot of power.
And it makes me sick to see gamers have an entire room, decorated with LEDs everywhere, watercooled data center GPUs and beefy CPUs cranked up to 12, in shiny, childish big towers, with a glass window to show off expensive HW. We will fucking die, and they just spill oil into the fire, only to play path traced PacMan.

That's not ok. Games are not essential for life, so we should reduce power draw.
Related chips should get smaller, not larger.
There should be even regulations. No more 4090 to China is not enough, nor is it the point. There should be no 4090 at all! >:(

So i work on this realtime GI algorithm, which can do path traced quality on an iGPU easily, more or less.
If i succeed, and if i can sell this to the industry as planned, i might be able to help reducing a tiny fraction of electricity demands.
I'm late, but i still have hope.

APU is the future! \:D/
(… and all we'll can afford anyway.)