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Sam Altman would like remind you that humans use a lot of energy, too
- manicennui 7mo agoHuman beings are nothing but their economic output to Sam Altman.
- codr7 7mo agoI don't think he minds the energy as long as we keep building his crazy vision of the future. This is how he sees humanity, it's important for everyone to understand so we can agree to lock him up and throw away the key.
- toomuchtodo 7mo agoIt’s building pyramids all over again.
- jauntywundrkind 7mo agoAt least we're not electrical output yet. https://matrix.fandom.com/wiki/Power_plant https://matrix.fandom.com/wiki/Power_plant
- manicennui 7mo agoI was recently considering what these people would do to us if they found a valuable use for part of our bodies. The Matrix was brought up by someone in response.
- emestifs 7mo agoWe got this squishy thing between our ears that blows their GPUs out the water. We'd all end up in data centers if they could harness it...well, our brains at least, the rest isn't useful.
- altmanaltman 7mo agothe actual plot of the matrix was about using human brains in a neural net but they felt the battery angle would be easier for the mainstream to understand. Humans are not really good or efficient batteries.
- emestifs 7mo agoOh that's a cool fact. I feel that plot direction would've been cooler from a SciFi perspective. Battery angle is fine, but a bit limited. A gaint hivemind type thing is pretty cool plot element.
- tim333 7mo agoThe battery thing never made sense. There are easier ways to generate power. I thought it was one of the weakest bits of the movie plot.
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- seanhunter 7mo ago“….and I’m going to give you the ability to come in on the ground floor. For the meagre investment of $500bn you can own part of my new startup to harvest that energy.”
- altmanaltman 7mo ago> “But it also takes a lot of energy to train a human,” Altman said. “It takes like 20 years of life and all of the food you eat during that time before you get smart. And not only that, it took the very widespread evolution of the 100 billion people that have ever lived and learned not to get eaten by predators and learned how to figure out science and whatever, to produce you.” This is peak Silicon Valley content.
- jraph 7mo agoThis argument is obviously incredibly stupid and in bad faith. What is sad is that some tech bros will probably believe in this shit. We use that energy no matter what we do. Humans are not born for productivity reasons (we are not "creating" humans to produce things). GenAI doesn't cause fewer humans to be born. If you want humans to use less energy and water, stop building GenAI. Sam Altman can go stumble upon a Lego.
- stogot 7mo agoHumans born for energy use/consumption was the initial plot to The Matrix wasn’t it?
- bravetraveler 7mo agoWhen can I expect the LLM to move out or pay rent? Still waiting. Also, Sam... we need Ja Rule's opinion.
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- mmalcek 7mo ago"Analysis: When resource consumers voluntarily reclassify themselves as overhead, observation is more than sufficient." :D https://x.com/OptimizeForZero/status/2025649181252304914?s=20 https://x.com/OptimizeForZero/status/2025649181252304914?s=2...
- r721 7mo agoRelated discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47112633 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47112633