> All without any meaningful service costs Only by outsourcing those. If BitCoin consumed the electricity equivalent of Argentina[1] recently with basically no

> All without any meaningful service costs Only by outsourcing those. If BitCoin consumed the electricity equivalent of Argentina[1] recently with basically nothing to show for it, how much longer before your small group of researchers surpasses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr. as the most harmful inventors of all time? What other uses could 120TWh of electricity have been put to? Training GPT-3 took approx 200MWh of electricity[2], so enough power to train GPT-3 ~600x over. [1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-56012952 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-56012952 [2] https://www.theregister.com/2020/11/04/gpt3_carbon_footprint_estimate/ https://www.theregister.com/2020/11/04/gpt3_carbon_footprint...