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> Firstly, there’s the environmental impact. Models require massive amounts of electricity and water (to cool servers). An AI chatbot contributes more to the cl
by codydkdc 1y ago
> Firstly, there’s the environmental impact. Models require massive amounts of electricity and water (to cool servers). An AI chatbot contributes more to the climate crisis than a Google search.
I really dislike the "people should be better and use less energy" argument for solving macro-problems like this
> My naive optimism led me to believe that technology would help us fight climate change. I was wrong: AI and Crypto are net negatives in this regard.
...why? why would technology that specifically requires a lot of energy help "fight climate change"?
this entirely article is missing any point to me -- it's very vague and speaking in generalities.
> “If you’re going to use generative tools powered by large language models, don’t pretend you don’t know how your sausage is made.”
why? if you generate code with a LLM, then read and deeply understand the code, what's wrong?
> I can’t help but feel the web would be a better place if the technology had never existed in the first place.
if we didn't invent the wheel, we wouldn't have so many cars/trucks polluting the planet
- lucianbr 1y ago> ...why? why would technology that specifically requires a lot of energy help "fight climate change"? There's no good reason it would. Nevertheless, proponents of both AI and crypto have claimed multiple times it would. So I think it is quite fair to bring it up. https://ia.samaltman.com/ https://ia.samaltman.com/
- alfiedotwtf 1y agoYou do realise most cryptocurrencies aren’t PoW, so your point is living in the past, man!
- proxynoproxy 1y agoOnly the one big pow coin matters tho. Turns out, PoS coins are worthless! I also dislike energy frugality arguments. They come from a Luddite place. A civilization is defined by its energy usage. Let’s be advanced civilization.
- alfiedotwtf 1y agowhat do you mean worthless? I'd say the opposite - Bitcoin does nothing... it just sits there looking pretty, this vs all newer blockchains that can actually run programs... we even have smart contracts running MIPS emulators for production use! ... get Bitcoin to do 3% of what ANY PoS blockchain could do.