Sigh. Don't wonder how the stock market is inflated and can crash in one day with these inflated claims.
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Jevons’ Paradox in AI Environmental Debate and Rebound Effects
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🌎Full paper here: "From Efficiency Gains to Rebound Effects: The Problem of Jevons’ Paradox in AI’s Polarized Environmental Debate" arxiv.org/pdf/2501.16548
→ View original post on X — @katecrawford, 2025-01-29 18:22 UTC
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AI Progress Cannot Reduce Climate Impact Without Curbing Consumption
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Conclusion: AI advances can't reduce climate impacts if they fuel exponential consumption
📌 Energy efficiency alone isn't enough
📌 Integrate total lifecycle assessments + socioeconomic analysis for climate interventions
📌 Address AI-driven economic & behavioral shifts [Translated from EN to English]→ View original post on X — @katecrawford, 2025-01-29 18:21 UTC
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AI Environmental Impact Beyond Hardware Efficiency and Emissions
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AI’s impact is shaped by market incentives, regulatory gaps, and social behaviors, not just hardware efficiency. Focusing only on direct emissions ignores system-wide feedback loops that drive AI’s expanding environmental footprint 📈
→ View original post on X — @katecrawford, 2025-01-29 18:21 UTC
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AI Efficiency Paradox: Lower Costs Drive Higher Environmental Costs
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AI follows a similar pattern: ✅ More efficient models → cheaper compute ✅ Cheaper compute → more AI ✅ More AI → more demand for compute, data centers, energy & emissions. Without including second-order effects, the AI industry risks a false sense of sustainability
→ View original post on X — @katecrawford, 2025-01-29 18:21 UTC
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AI Climate Impact Beyond Energy: The Jevons Paradox Effect
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AI’s climate impact isn’t just data center energy, emissions & water. The debate overlooks rebound effects—where efficiency gains spur more consumption. 19thC economist William Jevons observed the paradox that more efficient coal use led to greater total coal consumption 🪨
→ View original post on X — @katecrawford, 2025-01-29 18:21 UTC
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VC Investments Behind Privacy Violations and Human Rights Abuses
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"By connecting the dots between financial actors, privacy-violating technologies, & human rights impacts, we’re making the VC investments behind this abuse traceable & public" @ealshafei
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Finding Competitive Moats in Commodity Markets
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the only way to see what things will have moats in the future is to find a thriving business in a decades long market where the product is a total commodity that anyone can produce and ask yourself where the margin is coming from. For example sugar water and Coca Cola. Then
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AI Automation and Technological Unemployment Book Download Available
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The download link is now available… https://
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AI Automation and Technological Unemployment: Book Download
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https://
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