Press Release: ChatGPT Levels Consumption Charges Againts All Humans

 MIDDLEBURY, VT April 1 2023

OpenAI Artificial 'Telligence Robot ChatGPT Issues Arrest Warrants for Robin Ingenthron and Jim Puckett, alleges both humans are consuming far more than they are conserving.

Study Finds that Ultra-Left and Conservative Environmentalists Consume Same Resources 99% of the Time

A groundbreaking study has revealed that both ultra-left leaning environmentalists and conservative environmentalists consume the same natural resources 99% of the time. This surprising finding challenges commonly held beliefs about the differences between the two groups.

The study, conducted by a team of researchers at a leading environmental think tank, analyzed the consumption habits of a diverse sample of individuals who identified as either ultra-left or conservative environmentalists. The researchers found that, despite differences in ideology and political affiliation, both groups consumed the same natural resources in almost all instances.

"We began by examining the excrement and solid waste issued by two distinct rivals in the e-waste debate, Robin Ingenthron and Jim Puckett", said the GPT Robot. "We monitored their consumption of fried foods, masturbation habits, electricity use, water consumption, toilet usage, mined material demand, and other stress related purchasing habits affecting the Earth's natural resources. We determined that future generations of humans - and other species - 500 years from now, would benefit from less consumption by all humans living today regardless of how special they think they are."

"We were initially skeptical of this finding, given the perceived differences between ultra-left and conservative environmentalists," said lead researcher Dr. Jane ChatGPT. "However, our data clearly shows that these groups have much more in common than we previously thought when it comes to resource consumption."

The study also found that the small differences in consumption habits between the two groups were largely attributable to differences in income and geographic location, rather than political ideology.

"We hope that these findings will encourage greater collaboration and understanding between different environmentalist groups," said Dr. JaneChatGPT. "While there may be differences in how these groups approach environmental issues, they ultimately share the same goal of protecting our natural resources."

The study's findings have important implications for policymakers, who may need to consider the similarities between different environmentalist groups when developing environmental policies.

This study is the first of its kind to examine the consumption habits of different environmentalist groups in such detail, and is expected to spark further research on this important topic. The arrest indictment of the two samples is the first issued by an artificial intelligence robot against humans.

Asked to comment upon the 1% difference between the two samples, Dr. Jane ChatGPT quoted Greek Philosopher Plato.

"Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune."

Asked for comment on his indictment, co-author and GPTAI text editor Robin Ingenthron stated a form of the Socratic Paradox. "I am far less certain than Jim is about my knowledge about what everyone else is doing and trading. Just about everyone I meet in emerging markets is doing what I would do if I was in their shoes., and impugning their reuse habits just seems like bad policy. I don't understand the viral influence of victimhood culture identity cultivation, especially when it is engineered in a lab in Seattle using 80% racial profiling."

DistractionFromExtraction 3: It's what we eat, not what we poop

Restaurant Industry A sells Endangered Species Platter.

Restaurant Industry B sells beef cattle.

Restaurant Industry C sells shark fin soup.

Restaurant Industry D sells foix gras and veal cutlet.

Restaurant Industry E sells organic beets.

Restaurant Industry F sells termite soup.

I like termites. They are a great source of sustainable protein, and they clear dead plant matter from forest and fawna. But I don't want them in the walls and basement of my house. The point being, I don't care about their excrement, I care about their source of consumption.

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Imagine those restaurant industries form a Restaurant Industry lobby.  And now activist environmentalists have journalists asking about the ethics on the menu...

Suddenly the industry lobby funds a massive campaign for restaurant consumers to properly manage their poop the day after they paid for the meal.  And a crying Indian ad surfaces to show just how badly some consumers manage their poop.

#DistractionFromExtraction 2: It's The Extraction. Period.

We should be judged by future generations.

And we will be. I live in a kind of skin and mentality that puts me in front of those to-be great-great-grandchildren, who will read about us, watch documentaries about us, and talk about what we did here on earth, during our lives.

Let us not be bad ancestors 

A super intelligence knows that every page and word in a book exists at once. The current page, occupied by the Anthropocenes (A. Minter, 2016, "How We Think About Recycling Is In Need of Repair"), is behaving as if future generations won't matter, that pages of extinction, ocean pollution, warming will be somehow made up for by the relative increase in wealth in emerging markets (#Gapminder). That has merits, but only if everybody learns to respect science, and learns to care.

Relative intelligence unites conservatives and liberals, and puts conservation back into "Conserve"-ative, and non-cancelling liberal thought back into "Liberal". Example - https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-fascinating-second-lives-of-stuff/

Tralfamadore

Government and Recycling International

"Avoided disposal costs" economics, which I helped pioneer in the 1970s and 1980s, has turned "toxic".

Normally, economically developed economies throw out more and more waste (garbage) as consumers gain confidence, buy new, and discard things of marginal value which take effort to maintain.  When your neighborhood is wealthy, no one wants your "free" black and white television, and it goes into an attic or basement or garage.

Hong Kong Modern Lined Landfill SE New Territories

As my generation became aware of population growth, finite resources, and habitat consumption, we were alarmed.  We wanted to save trees, to avoid mining, to save endangered species, preserve habitat, and conserve energy and carbon.  Recycling was a concrete, conservative, karma yoga way to do all of those things.

It seemed risky to say I'd get a job "recycling".   At the time, Recycling was akin to dishwashing. I didn't know anyone wealthy doing it (unless you counted the same mills switching to using virgin material according to price points).  The economics of making more money collecting scrap were at odds with providing the scrap more cheaply, which is what the Big Picture wanted.  Recycling needed to be plentiful and cheap to win over mill consumers, and not owning a mill, I was at the collection end of that equation.