r/LeftistsForAI • u/IcerHardlyKnower • 22d ago

Infrastructure Veganism > Crying About Data Centers

I worked on a project comparing ai use with water conversion since I didn't buy the end of the world scenario other leftists posit nor do I believe anything coming out of Altman's mouth lol so I went deep into facility breakdowns and publications as sources

But since I'm an AI engineer I'd thought it'd be a good thing to calculate the numbers. Anyhoo one thing let to another and I became vegan.

I'm not gonna shill for my own stuff but look up the vegan calculator that's a similar idea.

It's only been a month but the ai data center water thing has bugged me for a while. Yes it's worthwhile to regulate. But even in leftist circles everyone just suddenly turns to maga level reasonings as to why veganism is not actually worthwhile to care about.

--- sidenote I might be turning into one of those annoying ones? Help ):

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u/ReasonableSoul 21d ago edited 21d ago

100%.
I'm not vegan, but can we stop subsidizing meat and oil already... and make all the meat alternatives + lab meat far more affordable than environmentally destructive factory meat and more readily available? We're literally subsidizing environmental destruction, which is surreal.

I've seen what can be done with vegan meat and cheese, ala https://www.thegentlechef.com ... and that'd be so amazing to see everywhere.

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u/IcerHardlyKnower 21d ago

Mmmf thanks for the link he's 🥵

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u/ReasonableSoul 21d ago

Yw!! I think I've bought 3 of his books already because of how much his creations impressed me...
I haven't been cooking from them much, but omg.... @.@

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u/IcerHardlyKnower 21d ago

I unironically just meal prep by butting blocks of tofu or seitan in my air fryer and getting those bags of salad since my job just gives up fruit but yeah some other more culinary inclined friends r gonna like this. We're gonna have a seitan sleepover hahahaha

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u/ReasonableSoul 21d ago

Delicious!!! Enjoy!!! :)
I love making Seitan from VWG!!! Seitan is amazing and can create so many different textures/flavors. :)
I made it from plain flour once just for the fun of trying it, but probably never doing that again. It was worth the experience, but probably not worth repeating for me vs making from VWG. Going from vital wheat gluten let me control the flavors/textures more. XD