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What's the relative energy cost of operating LLMs compared with dialup? On a finite planet, given some level of biological diversity is important to our surviva
by meristohm 2y ago
What's the relative energy cost of operating LLMs compared with dialup?
On a finite planet, given some level of biological diversity is important to our survival, I find it increasingly difficult to justify development of these novel luxuries.
- airstrike 2y agoHumans in general don't think in collective terms beyond a handful of people at most. Expecting that to change overnight is a foolish cause.
- SoftTalker 2y agoI don't know but the Sun, HP, and Compaq servers that powered the internet in 1999 were not power-efficient at all compared to today's machines.
- paulmd 2y agoJevon’s paradox in action - improvements in the efficiency have caused our usage of these resources to soar. If you think AI uses a lot of energy now, just wait until there’s commercially successful use-cases. On the other hand it’s also no different from any other production process in our economy. Just newer. Why improve steel production if that’s just going to lead to more steel consumption? If you didn’t want to maximize paperclips maybe it was/is a mistake to build our economy around paperclip maximizers.