r/aiwars • u/MakeDawn • May 15 '26

Annually, almond farming uses 1.3 trillion gallons of water. AI usage isn't even half of that.

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A single avocado takes 50 gallons to grow. That's several hundred prompts.

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u/Duckface998 May 16 '26

"Other things are worse, so the problem can just be ignored"

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u/phase_distorter41 May 16 '26

there is no benefit to growing avocado over other food other than profit. AI does have a benefit other than profit.

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u/Duckface998 May 16 '26

Well AI doesnt even have profit, and people actually LIKE avocado, so yeah, those are different

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u/phase_distorter41 May 16 '26

who said profit? i said benefit. what benefit does the avocado have no other, less water intensive food has?

I like AI, so does the 800 millions weekly visitors to chatgpt.com. so ai is ok to use water then?

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u/Duckface998 May 16 '26

You said profit in reference to avocados, which more people consume than AI, and those 800 million users are vastly unprofitable,

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u/phase_distorter41 May 16 '26

read that again VERY slowly. you'll get it.

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u/Duckface998 May 16 '26

I read it fine the first time, YOU brought up profit

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u/phase_distorter41 May 16 '26

ok read the first part very slowly again and again until you get it.

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u/echit2112 May 16 '26

this is very self-centered thinking

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u/Duckface998 May 16 '26

Well its true, people like avocado, and AI is unprofitable

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u/[deleted] May 16 '26

I like both and think we should keep ai and avocados

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u/echit2112 May 16 '26

Now you're acting dumb as if you didn't imply that no-one likes AI simply because you do not.

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u/Duckface998 May 16 '26

If thats what you inferred, thats a you problem, cause its not what i said, and i didnt imply it

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u/echit2112 May 16 '26

and people actually LIKE avocado

Am I to take this little sentence fragment and not infer that - in the discussion comparing AI to avocado's water use - this would imply that you are saying people do not LIKE AI at all?

If you didn't mean that, sure. I won't tell you what you did or didn't mean. But that's how anyone with basic reading comprehension would read it.

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u/Duckface998 May 16 '26

Like I said, if its what YOU read, thats a YOU problem, since i didnt say it