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Don't fight this. Try to profit from it. People love these tools and they will become utterly, utterly dependent. Using a spell-checker, I have gradually lost
by atomic128 2y ago
Don't fight this. Try to profit from it. People love these tools and they will become utterly, utterly dependent.
Using a spell-checker, I have gradually lost my ability to spell. Using these LLM tools, large parts of the population will lose the ability to think. Try to own them like farm animals.
The large number of tokens being processed by iterative models requires enormous energy. Look at the power draw of a Hopper or Blackwell GPU. The Cerebras wafer burns 23 KW.
One avenue to profit is to invest in nuclear power by owning uranium. This is risky and I do not recommend it to others. See discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41661768 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41661768
- acomjean 2y agoSpeaking of energy use. Microsoft is literally in talks to restart a nuclear plant where they will buy all the power[1]. It happens to be "Three Mile Island" plant [2] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03162-2 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03162-2 https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fact-sheets/3mile-isle.html https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fact-sheets/3...
- atomic128 2y agoThank you. Discussed in detail and at length here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41692131 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41692131
- AndyKelley 2y agoCounterpoint: don't try to own people like farm animals. Have pride in humanity, faith in your fellow man, and resist toxic cynicism.
- xp84 2y agoIf as GP says, people are actively choosing to become passive and dependent like farm animals, is it immoral to become the farmer? The alternative is to join them. It’s not in anyone’s power to force the rest of society to “be free.”
- sam29681749 2y agoWhat about the other alternative of neither farming nor joining them?
- atomic128 2y agoFortunes are made owning companies that sell harmful products. Domino's Pizza, Monster Energy Drink, etc. Fortunes will be made selling electricity to people who develop serious cognitive dependence on LLMs. There is no need for you to participate in the profits. I respect your life choices and I wish you well.
- AndyKelley 2y agoI don't respect your life choices and I wish you failure.
- satvikpendem 2y agoI had to laugh at their comments too. Well, at least they're being cynically honest.
- CamperBob2 2y agoDon't try to own uranium, either. Or if you do, don't store it all in one place.
- atomic128 2y agoThe Sprott Physical Uranium Trust owns 65,711,826 pounds of triuranium octoxide (U3O8) stored at uranium hexafluoride (UF6) conversion facilities in Canada, France, and the United States. Cameco Corporation, ConverDyn, and Orano Chimie-Enrichissement individually act as custodians on behalf of the Trust for the physical uranium owned by the Trust. https://sprott.com/investment-strategies/physical-commodity-funds/uranium/ https://sprott.com/investment-strategies/physical-commodity-... Please see the discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41661768 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41661768 for serious warnings. This is not suitable for you.
- CamperBob2 2y agoInteresting! Didn't realize that submarine reactors used bomb-grade uranium.
- jakkos 2y ago> Try to own them like farm animals. Jesus christ, I hope you are never in a position of any significant power
- cvs268 2y agoWhat would Jesus do? :-) (did you just take the lord's name in vain?)
- vasco 2y ago> large parts of the population will lose the ability to think. Try to own them like farm animals. You're so edgy that you might cut yourself, be careful. What is wrong with making profit by helping people through providing a service?
- beej71 2y agoAsked Purdue Pharma... :)