In this strategy, attacks on water, electricity, food access, and transport are meant to make civilians angry and channel that anger against their own government.
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Key Notes
Jiang argues that true superintelligence will not be achieved because the required fresh water and electricity demands exceed available civilizational resources.
He warns that AI infrastructure can consume enormous electricity and fresh water, so the AI buildout may become environmentally destructive even while being sold as progress.
Jiang says data centers are extremely expensive, absorb fresh water and electricity from local communities, and help drive up electricity costs for Americans.
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"...infrastructure. Basically, I want to destroy people's capacity to access water, electricity, and food, the basic necessities of life. Okay? Why do I want..."
"as the economy right so the most most basic thing is water okay look guys these are all dams and reservoirs around iran okay..."
"population power plants okay these are all power plants around uh iran and it's really easy to destroy these power plants all right so..."
"...of fresh water. You would need like multiple United States for electricity consumption in order to produce this superintelligence. And we don't have these..."
"...they're prohibitive and they're prohibitively expensive. They consume a community's entire electricity and fresh water. And so AI may destroy the environment."
"...to run and they suck up all communities, fresh water and electricity resources. Americans are seeing their electricity costs skyrocket. Why? Because these data..."
"...going to destroy jobs? Is it going to consume too much electricity and fresh water? Now, whenever you see Bernie Sanders and Seth Ullman..."
"...want. All right. So let's just say tomorrow there's no more electricity. It doesn't mean that we start taking nides, start killing each other...."
"but again we humans are extremely resilient just because there's more electricity just because we can't drive our cars just because we can't buy..."
"...You want to trick people to believe that behind all this electricity behind all this um semiconductors it's an inter -dimensional portal for demons..."
"...of Iran you basically block the people's access to food water Electricity you bomb power plants you bomb reservoirs you bomb railways and what..."
"...still out the whole country it seems like they don't have electricity if the information I'm getting is correct so quickly in the span..."
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