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No, we don’t have to create an LLM to do a task. That’s a choice with costs we can evaluate. If you really don’t understand how corporate travel arrangements w
by relaxing 2y ago
No, we don’t have to create an LLM to do a task. That’s a choice with costs we can evaluate.
If you really don’t understand how corporate travel arrangements work, I’ll clue you in:
Your employer reimburses your hotel even though you’d be sleeping anyway because your place to sleep doesn’t exist in the place they’re sending you. They pay your meals because eating out is more expensive than eating at home and your food and kitchen at home doesn’t exist in the place they’re sending you and also traveling is a pain so you deserve to treat yourself a little. They don’t generally reimburse your laundry costs unless you have stay more days than one can reasonably carry clean clothes for in a standard suitcase. Your bathing needs come free with the hotel.
I hope this helps you navigate the strange and confusing world we live in.
- TeMPOraL 2y agoThank you for the explanation. It matches my experience of having been sent across the world on business trips that lasted a month per stay (yes, standard suitcase doesn't fit enough clean clothes for those). I don't see your problem with the comparisons. We don't have to hire people and train them for the job either. GPUs already exist and could be running something else than LLMs (say, crypto miners). I feel it's you who's having problems drawing boundaries to allow for an apples-to-apples comparison.
- relaxing 2y agoThe people are there expensing energy even if you don’t hire them, but we can choose not to expend the energy to make an LLM. I don’t know how to explain it any more simply than that.