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Cars are actually a good analogy. They seem helpful in a lot of ways, and they can be, but ultimately they're harmful to your health, other's health, environmen
by sylos 2y ago
Cars are actually a good analogy. They seem helpful in a lot of ways, and they can be, but ultimately they're harmful to your health, other's health, environment, and the design and ability to construct places and locations free of drudgery.
- datadrivenangel 2y agoMotorized vehicles enable more access to fresher food, cheaper housing, and more material prosperity. They are genuinely helpful, just like LLMs can do some things insanely good (50x cheaper at categorizing tweets).
- __loam 2y agoThey're also cooking the Amazon lol
- ok123456 2y agoThe power cost of inference and training is coming down exponentially. Deepmind v3 was trained for a tenth of what it cost to train equivalent performing models a few months earlier. This is like saying digital electronic computers would never be economically and environmentally feasible if we had extrapolated out from the Z3 and ENIAC.
- Yoric 2y agoI think we should reserve judgement on the topic. Estimates on the energy cost of ChatGPT-o3 per request (never mind training) are scary.