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Yeah spiders in the data center, what a great way to insure that no one wants to work in there ever again.
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AI's Water and Electricity Use Soars In 2026
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EDIT: these were fabricated quotes by The Print India reporter — and were later retracted
link to corrected report: https://theprint.in/feature/jeff-bezos-water-consumption-amazon-ai-potential/2964266/
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https://theverifiedpost.com/article/bezos-ai-water-backlash-vivatech
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Speaking at the VivaTech 2026, Bezos weighed in on the ongoing debate around AI
AI data centres’ use of large quantities of water has been a point of contention and concern for many people around the world. But Bezos argued that “we have to look at the macro-picture of our planet’s future.”
“Biological limits are real, but digital potential is infinite. If we starve our data infrastructure of cooling resources just to sustain baseline human comfort, we are actively delaying the birth of a super-intelligence that could solve all of our resource problems in the first place.
Sometimes you have to prioritise the intelligence that will save us over the biology that slows us down,” he added.
https://www.msn.com/en-in/money/new...mption-is-limiting-ai-s-potential/ar-AA262mxM
link to corrected report: https://theprint.in/feature/jeff-bezos-water-consumption-amazon-ai-potential/2964266/
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https://theverifiedpost.com/article/bezos-ai-water-backlash-vivatech
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Amazon founder Jeff Bezos says human water consumption is limiting AI’s potential
Story by Insha Jalil Waziri• 1d
Speaking at the VivaTech 2026, Bezos weighed in on the ongoing debate around AI
The cost of AI advancement
Bezos also said that in order for AI to reach that potential, certain resources must be allocated and prioritised for the technology rather than for human consumption.AI data centres’ use of large quantities of water has been a point of contention and concern for many people around the world. But Bezos argued that “we have to look at the macro-picture of our planet’s future.”
“Biological limits are real, but digital potential is infinite. If we starve our data infrastructure of cooling resources just to sustain baseline human comfort, we are actively delaying the birth of a super-intelligence that could solve all of our resource problems in the first place.
Sometimes you have to prioritise the intelligence that will save us over the biology that slows us down,” he added.
https://www.msn.com/en-in/money/new...mption-is-limiting-ai-s-potential/ar-AA262mxM
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Bro, Did bezos really say that shit? what in the actual fuck. Also, The stupid ass spider shit i guess you could do but i think you should build fucking nuke plants to run all this stupid shit and maybe just maybe have some extra power to lower my electric bill you dumb ass. I swear we are going backwards with IQ.
STOP . TAKING . BATHS .
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You thirsty heartless monsters, why are you delaying the birth of the AI superintelligence?
Reptilians need more water than humans, just saying Jeff.
Reptilians need more water than humans, just saying Jeff.
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I had to double check and make sure that wasn't from Babylon Bee or something. WTF?
did an AI transcript hallucinate that statement
I generally do not watch videos. I was under the impression that MSN reporting would be accurate
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Luigi... party of one now ready for you
Let this be a lesson that the news and the media lies - as long as it furthers 'the cause'.
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Holy shit bezos is an out of touch prick. But i guess if you are in your 1% echochamber, you have no context of what reality is outside of it.
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I didn't know Bezos could be a shittier person but a new level of shittiness has been achieved.
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Would be funny if AI created that false quote. His new real quotes are just as stupid. “AI is going to create a labour shortage because it’s going to make it possible for people to identify more problems,” It's like he's saying AI will create more problems than it solves. “If we can accelerate the dream-build loop, all of the ideas will then become possible. And then we end up being limited not by our capabilities but by our imaginations,” WTF is a "dream-build loop"? Am I out of the loop?what has the world come to nowadays
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The thing Bezos doesn't get is that people need free time to do things. AI will be a useful tool for creativity, but people need time to properly use it. USA is lacking in that free time department, because people are panicking over the economy. Particularly jobs as they worry if they'll lose their jobs to AI. The internet itself went through many moments when we have an explosion of new media. Late 90's and early 2000's was due to NewGrounds which allowed people to upload content for people to view, and people did view. That was a time when the economy wasn't shit and people emerging into the world didn't yet have to worry about things like paying bills. The early 2010's had another explosion of creativity due to YouTube paying people for their content. COVID19 also had another explosion of media since people were locked inside and had nothing else to do.
Basic human needs have to be solved first before anyone can try to make AI generate something that isn't slop.
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People keep talking about AI like it’s some unprecedented force that will erase all human work. That’s the same mistake the Luddites made. We’ve never been able to predict the long‑term impact of a technology we’re seeing for the first time, it’s like asking someone to imagine a color they’ve never seen. Humans are terrible at forecasting the downstream effects of new tools.
Every major disruptive technology in history has followed the same pattern:
Tractors didn’t end work. Electricity didn’t end work. Computers didn’t end work. The internet didn’t end work. Robotics didn’t end work. They all increased output per worker and expanded the total economy.
AI will follow the same trajectory. The AI we see today won’t look anything like the AI we have in 10 years, and once it diffuses, it becomes a commodity. Commodities don’t eliminate opportunity; they enable it. They lower the cost of doing things, which increases demand, which increases the need for people who can coordinate, integrate, strategize, and execute.
A company with three people and a pile of AI tools will not out-compete a company with 300 people and the same tools. That’s not how scale, coordination, or strategy works. Automation increases output per person, but it doesn’t eliminate the need for people. Factories still employ thousands. Compilers didn’t eliminate software development; they expanded it.
Yes, if your entire job was building horse carriages, the automobile wiped you out. If your entire job was writing assembly, higher‑level languages wiped you out. But the technologies that replaced those jobs became inputs that everyone could use, and that’s what AI will become.
AI is stateless, has no real‑world grounding, and won’t for a long time. Humans provide intent, judgment, and strategy. The “one‑trick JavaScript code monkey” is under threat, sure. But the idea that AI will eliminate all human work ignores everything we know about how technology diffuses and how economies adapt.
And there’s no undoing any of this. Even if one country tried to slow down, others wouldn’t. Once a transformative technology appears, it doesn’t go back in the box.
So yes, disruption is coming. Some roles will vanish. Many more will appear. But the fear that AI will eliminate all human workers makes no sense historically, economically, or strategically.
Every major disruptive technology in history has followed the same pattern:
- It destroys narrow, specialized roles
- It becomes a cheap, widely available commodity input
- It creates far more jobs and industries than it eliminates
Tractors didn’t end work. Electricity didn’t end work. Computers didn’t end work. The internet didn’t end work. Robotics didn’t end work. They all increased output per worker and expanded the total economy.
AI will follow the same trajectory. The AI we see today won’t look anything like the AI we have in 10 years, and once it diffuses, it becomes a commodity. Commodities don’t eliminate opportunity; they enable it. They lower the cost of doing things, which increases demand, which increases the need for people who can coordinate, integrate, strategize, and execute.
A company with three people and a pile of AI tools will not out-compete a company with 300 people and the same tools. That’s not how scale, coordination, or strategy works. Automation increases output per person, but it doesn’t eliminate the need for people. Factories still employ thousands. Compilers didn’t eliminate software development; they expanded it.
Yes, if your entire job was building horse carriages, the automobile wiped you out. If your entire job was writing assembly, higher‑level languages wiped you out. But the technologies that replaced those jobs became inputs that everyone could use, and that’s what AI will become.
AI is stateless, has no real‑world grounding, and won’t for a long time. Humans provide intent, judgment, and strategy. The “one‑trick JavaScript code monkey” is under threat, sure. But the idea that AI will eliminate all human work ignores everything we know about how technology diffuses and how economies adapt.
And there’s no undoing any of this. Even if one country tried to slow down, others wouldn’t. Once a transformative technology appears, it doesn’t go back in the box.
So yes, disruption is coming. Some roles will vanish. Many more will appear. But the fear that AI will eliminate all human workers makes no sense historically, economically, or strategically.
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The problem with AI isn't AI, but the corporations who are burning through resources like they have a second planet to live on while destroying our economy in the process. We get that it's a cool new technology, but it's extremely flawed and has limited application. Corporations don't see this and think AI works well enough to employ. Good enough to fire a lot of people, or at least use as an excuse to fire people. They're using it for surveillance like Flock which can arrest people falsely because AI screwed up. They want AI to watch you while driving to make sure you're not drunk.
That's because in the end you still need a human operator to make new technology work. AI is specifically made to remove people from that role. If you need a person to operate AI then why even have AI at all?
Historically, new technology wasn't designed to eliminate humans. AI is designed to eliminate humans.
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Intent has nothing to do with anything. I intend to rule the world....so what? I make a tool to help me rule the world...so what? You need someone to operate the machine at the factory and the person and why have either? Per person production goes up. And IMHO, that is the real intent. And I support that and love it and I think it makes more jobs and everything historically supports that position.
Also, everything that can be used in a good way can also be misused. That's a different topic, and it is interesting and all, but not one I am going to engage with because my takes on government and liberty, and all that, are philosophically based and everyone else speaks in narratives and those are completely orthogonal debates and I am not interested in having a conversation where we are talking past each other. I am not interested in 'meeting people' where they are....I am just not a salesmen and that's where people are debating. Economics and replacing human labor etc....that we can speak purely in logic and empirical observation.
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I for one would view that as a good thing if all human work was erased. I'm looking forward to a comfortable life where we are all living on UBI and all undesirable labor is done by robots and AI, so we can dedicate our time fully to what we want to do instead of what we are forced to do just to survive.
The only people who talk about AI as if it is capable of erasing all jobs are tech billionaires. And I don't think even they believe it, they just say it to keep the bubble inflated. Regular working people are generally annoyed by this or outright hostile to AI, often irrationally so.
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Yeah let's keep sewer scrubbers in the sewers cuz government bad, what a brilliant take.
I'm sorry, you think that the people in charge will pay you a UBI that'll actually let you enjoy your life? They'll pay you barely enough to not starve. You won't be comfortable. These people are greedy as can be and you think they'll just give you a life of comfort? Have you been paying attention, at all?
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If they pay me 1c I'll be more comfortable than I am now, since I ain't getting paid anything at the moment. UBI doesn't mean you are not allowed to work, you still can if you want extra income and there is a need for your expertise. But I guess you prefer nothing over something.
Are you also against retirement then? Do you think like Ben Shapipo that everyone should work whatever menial job they ended up with until the day they drop dead? Retirement and ubi are almost the same concept. Cops and some other privileged people are already basically on ubi as they can retire 20 years earlier than anyone else.
I am not convinced this will be a good thing. I suspect most of humanity will wind up living in the equivalent of projects, doing nothing meaningful. There was a great story on Less Wrong I read 5 or 6 years ago about just this, and I wish I could remember the name to post a link here.
UBI will only be necessary on a grand scale precisely because there won't be work available for most people so the choice of getting "extra income" is going to be very limited in this potential future where UBI will be necessary.
I get the impression you think I'm against the concept of UBI by your next set of questions. My point is simply that it won't be a comfortable lifestyle because the people making the decisions have never had your best interests at heart. They'll provide you just enough money to buy their products and nothing else.
But, then again, if this happens the whole economy will collapse anyway so the riots will screw up their perfectly ordered society.
you think that Ben Shapiro is against capitalism, freedom and the capacity of saving money to the point he think that the state should force everyone to work until death ?
retirement (is the point in time when a person chooses to permanently leave the workforce or significantly reduce their working hours, usually after reaching a certain age.) and UBI (is a social welfare policy model where all citizens of a geographic area receive a regular, unconditional cash payment from the government, regardless of their income, employment status, or wealth.) are quite different concept, retirement can take many form (retirement back in the days of antique rome for a career soldier veteran or artisans family business to some soviet style format to common around the world modern system), some come look like UBI once a certain age, some really not and some a mix.
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Building a pension from working for years is the classic method, but current methods are more 401k contributions. Seems pretty weird for anyone to claim either of these are not earned benefits rather than UBI unless you're saying UBI is like contributions to a fund with a manager that then pays you in retirement year. All of which require working rather than just existing.
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I don't get this hatred for the government? The government is only a problem when corruption occurs. You want the government to work for you, and not the wealthy billionaires. You don't exactly have a utopia with all this war and tariffs we're paying. We clearly have a corrupt government who is clearly not working for your benefits. Not having UBI doesn't change this fact.
I think Ben Shapiro is Israel first, when it shouldn't even be part of the discussion.