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Yeah, the real point is that "AI uses a lot of energy: here's why you should be concerned" is just a post-hoc justification for someone who doesn't like AI and

• _heimdall 2y ago
  Agreed, that's not a useful argument when its posed that way. That is only one way of seeing it though. The question, in my opinion, isn't whether LLMs are a huge energy suck and we should be worked. My question is whether its really needed at all, regardless of how much energy it may or may not use relative to other things. People's needs really are pretty simple at the end of the day. Food, water, shelter, (the feeling of) safety, community. We just aren't good at defining enough and some people are very good at convincing us that we don't need to even consider that concept.