Jemma Spake
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 23 Apr
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And scientists even say that's a low-end estimate.
We look at these numbers and we think, you know, how could you possibly keep using this technology no matter how easy it makes email writing or life planning or how fun it is to generate funny, weird pictures for Instagram?
Why has this been so normalized?
And the answer is because this is a classic prisoner's dilemma or tragedy of the commons problem.
One that has been repeated throughout history.
So the prisoner's dilemma, if you haven't heard of it before, is a very classic thought exercise in philosophy whereby two people are in a prison.
They've both committed a crime together and they're told to either snitch on the other person and they'll get a lighter sentence.
But if neither of them snitch, they both get off.
It is in everyone's best interest to behave one way, i.e.
not snitch, not use AI, that sort of thing.
But...
because we think that the other person will snitch, will use AI and get away with it, obviously the now rational choice we end up, the choice we end up making is to do the thing that's actually going to lead to mutual destruction.
And so everybody will lose.
From an individual perspective, you know, our thoughts with AI are this.
If I stop using AI, the environmental damage is going to continue anyway because I can't guarantee everybody's going to stop.
If I keep using it, at least I benefit and at least my contribution is insignificant.
If everybody keeps using it and I opt out, I'm worse off.
So the rational individual choice is to keep using it, is to keep using AI, right?
When everyone makes that choice, again, when everyone makes the same rational choice, emissions rise, water demand explodes, we end up in a bad situation.
Psychologically, we as humans, we know this, we're terrible at protecting resources we can't see and don't immediately pay for.
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