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Anyone concerned about LLM energy and water use should just stop eating meat. Now they’re massively a net positive contributor.

• 0xcafefood 2y ago
  It seems like your claiming that the perceived benefits of eating meat (by those who do) exactly equals the benefits of using ChatGPT. Is that right? If so, I disagree.
  • logtempo 2y ago
    I think the claim is more about people's consistency in their choice. "If you care so much, start to [insert any environmental friendly acivity] and then we can discuss about LLM environmental impact". Which is stupid.
    • BeetleB 2y ago
      It's as stupid as comparing it with drinking water usage, right?
  • BeetleB 2y ago
    I think he's saying that eating beef in particular is a tremendous amount of CO2 emissions (comparable to driving). Eating other meats has a much lower impact. Not eating meat is even much lower. So one question: No one probably benefits much from beef (vs, say, chicken). So if I were to recast the parent: If you're concerned about energy usage from LLMs, you'll have a larger impact if you stop eating beef (with little impact to your health).
  • Filligree 2y ago
    Of course it doesn’t exactly equal it. Meat takes thousands of times more.