Andy Masley
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first heard Dec 2025
last heard 12 Dec
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The main way I started writing about this, honestly, was I was just bumping into a lot of people like at parties and stuff.
I think we've all had...
maybe similar experiences where we talk about like using chatbots or chat GPT and someone will be like, oh, like how can you do that if you claim to care about the environment or whatever?
People would bring up the like now kind of defunct statistic that like, oh, a chatbot uses like 10 times as much energy as a Google search.
And my first reaction to that at the time was like, that's not very much energy.
You know, like if I said I had done like a thousand Google searches in a day, that on its own, like wouldn't really stand out.
You know, like you wouldn't think, oh, Andy doesn't care about
the environment so much.
So basically, I had started to dig into how this was being covered, finding I was disagreeing with a lot of it, going a little bit crazy.
I started to go down more and more rabbit holes.
And like now I've ended up here as like one of the main commentators on the issue, despite being basically just some guy who's doing this as a hobby.
Yeah.
receiving no financial incentive to do this outside of my loyal Substack subscribers.
Basically, I'm motivated to do this mostly by just bumping into a lot of what I think are pretty simple misconceptions.
And honestly, as a long-time environmentalist and physics teacher of seven years, I'm pretty worried that a lot of people
just have these really wildly off misconceptions that are distracting them from what I think of as more serious issues.
Like one story that happened recently, a friend was in a pizza place and he'd overheard this conversation where someone had said like, oh, this person uses chat GPT.
And so she can't consider herself to be an environmentalist.
And then immediately after went and ordered like a meat lovers pizza.
And like, you know, even just there, I'm like, oh, this person just really doesn't understand the different tradeoffs involved in different things.
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