Agree with the comment, but riffing on the last few words: Climate is pretty much my #1 concern about the world, but LLM use of energy is really really far dow

Agree with the comment, but riffing on the last few words: Climate is pretty much my #1 concern about the world, but LLM use of energy is really really far down on the list of important actions for climate. First and foremost are removing roadblocks for deploying existing technologies for clean energy, and speeding up the necessary supporting infrastructure such as transmission and market policies for choosing cheapest possible solutions (over the objections of dinosaur execs that choose last century's solutions). Then the big hard to decarbonize parts of industry like cement and steel, as well as deploying electrolyzers to get ammonia fertilizer production switched over to carbon neutral production rather than from fossil-generated hydrogen. Reducing energy consumption is important for advancing AI in general, but ultimately all its energy consumption will be from clean energy sources anyway, and the switch that needs to happen is that switch in energy sources. Reducing energy use by 2x or 10x is not good enough, we must change the sources fundamentally.