10 June

The current hysteria over resource usage of AI data centres. Driven by social media, because trending hysterias is its bread and butter. It drives revenue. Humanity has always devoted enormous resources to cognition. For millions of years, just as individual human brains, which are energy and resource pigs in the body. Then for collective cognition, through literacy, numeracy and education more generally. Look at the numbers, they match almost exactly the resource usage of our individual brains, but in society instead. Most interestingly, AI may actually *reduce* the resources we need for collective cognition. Much of education and collective cognition is infected by status games. Education and knowledge used as a marker of status. AI strips that away. Reducing the resources devoted to collective cognition.