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Very often that just increased efficiency just lead to increased demand. I’m skeptical.

• j45 2y ago
  You’re welcome to be skeptical. If it’s ok I’d like to both share how I’m navigating my skepticism and also being mindful of the need to keep in perspective other people’s skepticism if it doesn’t offer anything to compare. Why? I have friends who can border on veiled cynicism without outlining what might be in the consideration of skepticism. The only things being looked at are why something is not possible, not a combination. Both can result in a similar outcome. Not having enough time to look into intent enough, it just invalidates the persons skepticism until they look into it more themselves. Otherwise used as a mechanism to try and trigger the world to expend mental labour for free on your behalf. It’s important to ask one’s self if there may be partially relevant facts to determine what kind of skepticism may apply: - Generally, is there a provenance of efficiency improvement both in the world of large scale software and algorithmic optimizations? - Have LLMs become more optimized in the past year or two? (Can someone M1 Max Studio run more and more models that are smaller and better to do the same) - Generally and historically is there provenance in compute hardware optimizations, for LLm type or LLM calculations outright? - Are LLMs using a great deal more resources on average than new technologies preceding it? - Are LLMs using a massive amount of resources in the start similar to servers that used to take up entire rooms compared to today?