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It's a bit demoralizing how many suggestions in this thread would have significant environmental effects beyond what large scale AI training already has.

>>jamess+(OP)
It's far far faaar more demoralizing people not realizing orders of magnitude...

Something like 2/3rds of sunshine is already being absorbed by oceans. How much solar power do humans harvest? A billionth?

>>jamess+(OP)
It's a bit demoralizing people talk about AI training as if it were even 1/100th the environmental impact of the personal automobile or frequent airplane trips

>>dzhiur+5i
I'm talking about the above proposals (albiet hypothetical) to either cover a pole of our planet in solar and other ocean based proposals--not solar in general.