There is no such thing as a right to a comfortable outdoor temperature in the geographic environment of your choice.

This was true even before we started burning coal, it's true now, and it will still be true even after we hit net zero carbon emissions, and even after all of the CO2 dissipates.

It's also not just influencers, it's scientists and the leadership of scientific institutions directly, too.

"If there’s no action before 2012, that’s too late."

- Rajendra Pachauri, head of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) [August 19th, 2008]

https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-economist-debat...

"We cannot now afford to put off change any longer. We have to get on a new path within this new administration. We have only four years left for Obama to set an example to the rest of the world."

- James Hansen, director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies [January 17th, 2009]

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2009/jan/18/obama-cl...

You mean besides the most recognizable / well known climate activist on earth?

"A top climate scientist is warning that climate change will wipe out all of humanity unless we stop using fossil fuels over the next five years."

- Greta Thunberg (June 21st, 2018)

https://web.archive.org/web/20230307215203/https://twitter.c...

This reminds me of LLM companies scraping the entire internet and destroying millions of books to scan them in bulk quickly and then complaining about others performing distillation attacks against their models.

It's fine to be unhappy about people coming to you with complaints about forks of your software, but if the premise of your project is "we made a near perfect clone of Photoshop so you don't have to pay for it", haven't you kinda ethically ceded the right to complain about other people copying your software, even if you managed to stay within the confines of copyright law?

If you're building on other people's ideas and work, don't you owe the world a duty of reciprocity in openness?

>No. Congress has not declared war on Iran.

>The White House, in a May 2026 statement of administration policy, said hostilities that began February 28, 2026, ended with a ceasefire the President ordered on April 7, 2026, and that there are no present hostilities from which to remove U.S. forces.

lol

The cost of strictly enforcing stated rules for ads is felt immediately and fully by Google. It is concrete, measurable, and probably non-insignificant; the benefit is essentially goodwill from the narrow sliver of the web that is verbal about this. That is intangible, difficult to measure, even harder to assign a reasonable dollar value to (meaning the ROI could look negative), and the benefit would accrue to parties other than Google who might not even notice.

Regardless, this is still missing my main point. Hypothetically, if you became convinced that a chatbot you were talking to definitely was 100% conscious, and it told you to murder someone, would you go commit murder? Of course not. The chatbot does not cause murders; regardless of whether or not you are conscious. The voices in the head of the schizophrenic do not cause murders either. Those voices do not really exist, they are not real entities. The cause of the murder is the mental illness, not the LLM or the voices that tell someone to commit the murder.

Do you think the kind of person who was already psychologically unhinged enough to kill themselves or another person because a chatbot told them to would be completely harmless and totally safe if only chatbots had never been invented? Or is it possible that close to all of the risk posed by this person comes from the person's mental illness, and not the pixels on the screen they're looking at?

Chatbots don't make people murderous any more than "satanic music", violent video games, or cannabis do. LLMs are just the latest entry on a list of hysterical moral panics that conflate coincidence with causation.

Fun fact: pirates are more likely than the average person to purchase media.

https://web.archive.org/web/20170916165525/https://www.ofcom...

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110727/16233815292/anoth...