People seem to be talking about water usage specifically a lot? ![[Wherefore water usage-20250430165108307.png]] And a friend of mine was at an unrelated event - a Korean language class of all things - where the conversation turned to this and turned into denunciations / disavowals of use. # It's wrong Andy has an excellent piece responding to a lot of this at https://andymasley.substack.com/p/individual-ai-use-is-not-bad-for. I would honestly just say - go and read that, then come back. # Memetic fitness Yudkowsky proposed: ![[Wherefore water usage-20250430171955216.png]] To which I would add: ![[Wherefore water usage-20250430172019175.png]] So some factors on memetic fitness: ==// TODO== | Enhancing | Ambiguous | Detracting | | ---------------- | --------- | ---------- | | "Good" scope<br> | | | # Is this really all there is to it? The evolutionary answer is kinda boring! Possibly there were a variety of takes with similar memetic fitness, and this was "just" the one that took off (due to some accident of chance - or deliberate action). *Why water usage*? Why *not* electricity, or something else?