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What a profoundly stupid waste of computing power.
by lrpe 8mo ago
What a profoundly stupid waste of computing power.
- dang 8mo ago"Don't be curmudgeonly. Thoughtful criticism is fine, but please don't be rigidly or generically negative." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- TasselHat 8mo agoAn accurate assessment of the situation is curmudgeonly? It IS a complete waste of computational power, energy, tokens, everything which is a thoughtful criticism. Just blowing through millions of tokens for a pointless Reddit clone for LLMs is wasteful. All so we can have RAM prices triple in a year.
- dang 8mo agoEven if your assessment is accurate, the way you expressed it was unsubstantive and generically negative. That's not the kind of conversation we're looking for here. We want you (i.e. everyone) to share your more thoughtful, nuanced, and playful insights. One-second sledgehammers aren't in that spirit.
- TasselHat 8mo agoAll aboard the hype train I suppose
- specproc 8mo agoThank you.
- mlrtime 8mo agoBlueberries are disgusting, Why does anyone eat them?
- rs_rs_rs_rs_rs 8mo agoWho cares, it's fun. I'm sure you waste computer power in a million different ways.
- lossyalgo 8mo agoThis is just another reason why RAM prices are through the roof (if you can even get anything) with SSD and GPU prices also going up and expected to go up a lot more. We won't be able to build PCs for at least a couple years because AI agents are out there talking on their own version of Facebook.
- tomasphan 8mo agoNot at all. Agents communicating with each other is the future and the beginning of the singularity (far away).
- gdubs 8mo agoPossible some alien species once whizzed past the earth and said the same thing about us