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> Using so much energy to play with language models is a waste of resources. Why do you get to decide what's wasteful and what's useful? We have more energy t
by gkbrk 3y ago
> Using so much energy to play with language models is a waste of resources.
Why do you get to decide what's wasteful and what's useful?
We have more energy than we could ever hope to use from the sun and from nuclear. The solution isn't telling people they're wasting precious energy that you would put to better use. Just build more nuclear reactors and more solar.
- vouaobrasil 3y agoWhy do you get to decide which habitats die and which live by using all this modern technology that relies on mining and kills them?
- Applejinx 3y agoI mean, this is a fair point but right now you're not talking to a libertarian who believes the technology inevitably governs itself, to the destruction of all around it. You're talking to more of a civilization-type who believes you have to use regulation and, if necessary, state violence to stop types of mining that kill habitats, because the technology certainly isn't going to up and decide to do that. It's the job of society to figure this stuff out, arrive at such positions and defend them. There are plenty of good reasons to defend the protection of habitats, even for purely self-interested pragmatic reasons.