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Again, this just feels like throwing your hands up in the air and saying "it's too hard to decide!" But we have to take decisions somehow if we're going to do a
by frereubu 1y ago
Again, this just feels like throwing your hands up in the air and saying "it's too hard to decide!" But we have to take decisions somehow if we're going to do anything.
- roywiggins 1y agoTake one fewer hot shower a week and you've saved enough energy to power a lot of ChatGPT queries. Play one fewer hour of Minecraft. Turn off raytracing. Eat one fewer burger per month. All of those things would save more energy than forgoing a few ChatGPT conversations.
- zdragnar 1y agoYes, that's the challenge of centralizing economies. You aren't going to be able to do so efficiently because you don't have every person's preferences. If by "we're going to do anything" you mean presumably fiat power to ban LLMs, then you're better off using that fiat power to just put a sin tax on carbon emissions and letting people decide where they want to cut back.
- sherburt3 1y agoOk lets try to trick China and India into believing industrialization is lame and being poor is cool. That should buy us a couple of years