Comment by hlynurd
4 days ago
I'm still not seeing it. It's immoral because it's resources not spent on some particular problem you have in mind?
4 days ago
I'm still not seeing it. It's immoral because it's resources not spent on some particular problem you have in mind?
The 10x from 400 billion to 4 trillion in a decade didnt come from 2% inflation.
It didnt come from nowhwere, or from Silicon Valleys exceptionalism - It came from changing the value of money, labour and resources. It came from everyday people, deficits and borrowing from the next 10 generations of children.
Exploitation. Or cost externalization.
The public discourse is weirdly unable to adress burning problems that had been formulated almost 150 years ago. Much like the climate change topic originating in the 1970s.
Seems like this is about something other than LLMs?
Of course it is, LLMSs are just the current manifestation.
You can swap "LLMs" with "pointless wars over books or dirt" if you want - same same, nothing is new.
It is about LLMs because it's the trillions being sunk into this bubble instead of more important issues like climate crisis and a pressing need to address the transformation of the energy sector or tackling the wealth inequality gap. These are all causing real world osues that are much bigger than beating (or rather faking to beat) some LLM benchmarks to impress investor.
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LLMs don't exist in a vacuum. Someone spends money to build LLMs, builds infrastructure that the LLMs run on, extracts training data to run the LLMs on, uses LLM for various use-cases, and makes revenue from specific LLM users.
> The 10x from 400 billion to 4 trillion in a decade didnt come from 2% inflation.
Money printing does not cause inflation equally especially if not distrubuted so.