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"because what was love if it wasn't nursing someone else's pain as if it were your own"

Ah.

""The possibility of an immediate and wholesale decimation of civilization was not half as frightening as the simple realization that our individual passing had no impact on the order of things, and life would go on just the same with or without us. Now that, she had always thought was terrifying"

Whew!"

"The possibility of an immediate and wholesale decimation of civilization was not half as frightening as the simple realization that our individual passing had no impact on the order of things, and life would go on just the same with or without us. Now that, she had always though was terrifying"

Whew!

"it seems strange that people who have already attained a position of power through violence invest so much time in justifying their plunder with words. But even plunderers are human beings who violent ambitions must contend with the guilt that gnaws at them when they meet the eyes of their victims".

Whew!

Update correction: potable water meets that standard). According to an estimate from researchers at the University of California, Riverside, surging AI demand could use 1.1 trillion to 1.7 trillion gallons of predominantly fresh water globally a year by 2027, or half the water annually withdrawn in the UK. Pg 277

Incorrectly stated before that AI could consume this much fresh water, more so use and not all fresh.

Updated correction: "So, too, is the extraordinary volume of minerals including copper and lithium needed to build the hardware-computers, cables, powerlines, batteries, backup generators-and the extraordinary volume of fresh-potable-water needed to cool the servers and generate the electricity to power them. (The water often used for cooling must be clean enough to avoid clogging pipes and bacterial growth;...Pg 277

1. Hao made a correction to a data point for a specific proposed data center in Chile. (Chapter 12)

2. A correction and additional clarifications to a paragraph about the overall projected water use.