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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jfdlsjfd" data-source="post: 9698934" data-attributes="member: 42856">I won't speak for the person you're responding to, but I feel that it's not whataboutism. Whataboutism would be if both things were unrelated.Here, the argument is "the fact that we use inefficient/unsustainable/unethical meat (or that we massively use plane and car travel burning oil, or that we water our gardens to keep the grass green, or that we use air conditioning outdoor (seen in Dubai)...) shows that we're pretty happy as a society having no concern for the environment whenever it suits our fancy, why should we be starting to do thing differently with AI?"It's not dismissing the ecological impact of AI, it's acknowledging it, and countering the argument by stating that we, as a society, don't care about the ecological impact of anything unless we are not affected by it.</blockquote>