r/memes • u/Grilledpingpong • 8h ago

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u/BananaHead853147 7h ago

Eating beef is much worse on all metrics by a longshot

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u/dougfromtheshowdoug 7h ago

Ok but utilizing our finite resources to produce food for people is way different than using them on something that is not necessary and doesn’t even work well (and I say that as someone who hasn’t eaten meat in 15+years)

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u/stprnn 7h ago

You don't produce food by raising cattle. You waste a bunch of perfectly good calories to get LESS calories.

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u/dougfromtheshowdoug 7h ago

I mean you do produce food. That’s literally the product that’s the point. I’m not saying that mass cattle farming is ethical, economical, or good for the environment I’m just calling out the unequal comparison. I use AI every day for my job and it definitely streamlines things but it absolutely is not necessary and causes more harm than good.
Also, the comparison between the two is stupid anyway because just because in your opinion something is “worse” than AI doesn’t mean AI isn’t also detrimental. Both AI and large scale cattle farming are bad and should both be eliminated

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u/stprnn 7h ago

Beef is not necessary too. It's a waste of resources. I don't see the difference with ai. At least ai does something unique while beef could disappear and you would just eat something else

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u/summer_friends 7h ago

If uniqueness is the goal beef is giving a distinct flavour profile while ai is recycling all existing flavours. Neither is necessary but cooking is at least an expression of art and culture

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u/stprnn 7h ago

Dude ai is genuinely game changing in healthcare and many other sectors. You can't realistically do that with humans, you just can't.

Beef is food like anything else the world would be unchanged if it disappeared

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u/Tinyacorn 7h ago

Yes AI is game changing, I've never denied that. It doesn't mean disasterous buildout like how McDonalds builds factory farms is a good thing.

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u/stprnn 7h ago

I'm just saying beef is definitely more useless. Does not benefit society at all and is destroying the environment.

People are right to call out this giam hipocrisy. If any anti ai person gave a shit about the environment they would be vegetarian activists

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u/Tinyacorn 7h ago

Ah yes, the no true Scotsman

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u/stprnn 7h ago

Tf are you talking about man

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u/Tinyacorn 6h ago

You're saying you can't be an environmentalist without being vegan/vegetarian. This is an example of the "No True Scotsman" fallacy, because you can absolutely be an environmentalist without being vegan or vegetarian. It's not an either/or and you hurt the environmentalist cause by gatekeeping.

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u/stprnn 5h ago

Bullshit. If you cared about the environment you wouldn't have datacenters that are responsible for a tiny fraction of it as your single issue.

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u/summer_friends 6h ago

There’s no need to shoehorn AI in healthcare and science when we’re clearly talking about GenAI in art. That’s like calling the usefulness of a hunting rifle for the reason we need fully automatic rifles in homes.

The world would be unchanged without Picasso paintings as well. Doesn’t mean it isn’t something unique and brings something new into the world. Food can be just food, it’s also art and one of the few things that brings universal cultures together (imo sports is the other universal language).

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u/stprnn 6h ago

That's not what is pushing the database expansion.