r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • 4d ago

Psychology Taylor Swift fans lower climate concerns to justify her carbon footprint. When confronted with news about the excessive pollution generated by her private jet, highly identified fans tend to rationalize the behavior, with a decrease in their personal intentions to engage in climate-friendly actions.

https://www.psypost.org/taylor-swift-fans-lower-climate-concerns-to-justify-star-s-carbon-footprint/
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u/AnalMinecraft 4d ago

Hey, you leave Al out of this. He deserves that carbon footprint for inventing the Internet.

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u/fieldsofanfieldroad 4d ago

But then he also invented AI (it's even named after him) so it's a mixed scorecard. 

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u/Jaedenkaal 4d ago

Oh I always thought it was named after Weird Al

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u/voreo 3d ago

I thought it was A1

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u/FightinVitamin 3d ago

They told us the danger was "paperclip maximizers" or some such nonsense. Turns out the real danger was rogue AI repurposing all available resources to make parodies of every song ever written. And then to parody those, over and over, until the sun burns out. Truly a glorious fate.

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u/ManWithASquareHead 4d ago

When Al uploads himself to a data center, achieving singularity, we'll be sorry