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Any amount of energy spent useful work is vastly superior than whatever “POW” crypto burn does. >For all the posturing and forest fire hate on HN, it’s now soc

Any amount of energy spent useful work is vastly superior than whatever “POW” crypto burn does. >For all the posturing and forest fire hate on HN, it’s now socially acceptable to run a toy steam engine to power a model car? Not very green of you.

CaptainFever 3y ago
It's almost a fallacy at this point to declare something bad simply because of the existence of carbon emissions, without first comparing the benefits of what is being produced, and the alternative tradeoffs. To be fair to GP, they did compare it to alternatives (dumb HTML parsing), but failed to consider versatile HTML parsing or other uses for Groq LLM.
samus 3y ago
While you are not wrong, crypto is not what this is being compared with.