Johannes Kappel
@johanneskappel.bsky.social
Neuroscientist, working on connectomics & cognition. EMBO Postdoctoral Fellow @ FMI Basel 🇨🇭
Reposted by Johannes Kappel
Capitalism certainly does not fund science to speak truth to power. But precisely because science cannot make due without a concept of truth, it sometimes cannot help but speak truth to power anyways. An obvious case is climate change, where scientific truth conflicts clearly with the profit motive.
November 17, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Capitalism certainly does not fund science to speak truth to power. But precisely because science cannot make due without a concept of truth, it sometimes cannot help but speak truth to power anyways. An obvious case is climate change, where scientific truth conflicts clearly with the profit motive.
Reposted by Johannes Kappel
To me, this is one of the key aspects of generative AI's broader environmental, social and climate harm: it cannot exist in an efficient, lean and narrowly applied way.
It only ever looks like it "works" when it's brute-forced: just like Bitcoin. The harm is baked into its characteristics.
It only ever looks like it "works" when it's brute-forced: just like Bitcoin. The harm is baked into its characteristics.
Artificial Intelligence Wants to Sell You Stuff While the World Burns
Meta is betting on generative AI for a new generation of aggressive advertising. It requires immense energy, much of which will likely come from fossil fuels.
newrepublic.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:35 PM
To me, this is one of the key aspects of generative AI's broader environmental, social and climate harm: it cannot exist in an efficient, lean and narrowly applied way.
It only ever looks like it "works" when it's brute-forced: just like Bitcoin. The harm is baked into its characteristics.
It only ever looks like it "works" when it's brute-forced: just like Bitcoin. The harm is baked into its characteristics.
Looking forward to what’s coming from your lab, congrats 🙂
September 29, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Looking forward to what’s coming from your lab, congrats 🙂