Sitemap - 2025 - Andy Masley

AI can obviously create new knowledge

Empire of AI is wildly misleading about AI water use

A short summary of my argument that using ChatGPT isn't bad for the environment

The lump of cognition fallacy

A list of other catastrophes that are probably fake

It's much easier to hold computers accountable than it is to hold humans accountable

Data centers and low social trust

An armchair diagnosis of the chatbot moral panic

AI Sessions #3: The Truth About AI and the Environment

Always mask at airports

A lot of arguments for legalizing autonomous vehicles in your city

AI and Folk Cartesianism - Part 2: Problems for Cartesianism

AI and Folk Cartesianism - Part 1: Defining the Problem

A pause (for now) on AI and the environment posts, and a bounty for mistakes

Requests for journalists covering AI and the environment

The main way I've seen people turn ideologically crazy

A few meta points on my posts on AI and the environment

Slop implies capability

The AI water issue is fake

Data centers & electricity - part 1: as of 2025 they haven't raised national prices

What a data center is

More Perfect Union videos are wildly deceptive on data center water use

AI & the Environment

For the climate, little things don't add up

What's the full "hidden" climate cost of a ChatGPT prompt?

Do data centers only seem bad for the climate because we can see them?

Jevons' Paradox is good sometimes

Mapping the AI & environment debate

The core simple reason I think AI is valuable

An example of what I consider a misleading article about AI and the environment

When making cuts for the climate, always consider the value you're getting per unit energy, not just the total energy used

A ton of AI images I've made that I've liked

Contra the UK government, please don't delete your old photos and emails to save water

Egalitarianism requires quantification

My can of soup example of bad climate communication

Amazon deliveries are often better for the environment than driving to buy the stuff in a store

Consider applying to the Berggruen Prize Essay Competition on the philosophy of consciousness, and donating a portion of your winnings to effective charities

All my (vegan) fitness advice - Part 3: Products, mindset, and motivation

All my (vegan) fitness advice - Part 2: Diet, supplements, and optimization

All my (vegan) fitness advice - Part 1: Exercise and etiquette

AI can be bad without being useless

My "Are you presuming most people are stupid?" test

Computing is efficient

Even with a perfect government, we'd still need a lot of private charity

Resource recs on AI catastrophic risk

All the ways I want the AI debate to be better

Reactions to MIT Technology Review's report on AI and the environment

Things I got wrong in my ChatGPT/environment posts

Why goofy AI art almost never seems wasteful to me

Replies to criticisms of my posts on ChatGPT & the environment

Animal suffering isn't pretend

Using ChatGPT is not bad for the environment - a cheat sheet

ChatGPT on the lives of factory farmed pigs

Ideological moves that should be lower status

Resource recs for energy literacy

How I use AI

Links

A defense of AI art

People's deeply held beliefs are surprisingly surface-level

Ideas from philosophy I use to think about AI

Using ChatGPT is not bad for the environment