Comment by AndrewKemendo
6 months ago
None of which have to do with AI or AGI.
Nestle is and has been 10000x worse for global water security than all other companies and countries combined because nobody in the value chain cares about someone else’s aquifer.
It’s a social-economic problem of externalities being ignored , which transcends any narrow technological use case.
What you describe has been true for all exported manufacturing forever.
I think the point is: where does this end? Do we continue to build orders-of-magnitude bigger models guzzling orders-of-magnitude more water and other resources, in pursuit of the elusive AGI?
At some we need to end this AGI" rat race and focus on realizing practical benefits from the models we currently have.
Well then vote with your wallet and convince everyone you know to stop the train.
As long as there’s a market, machines are going to continue toto displace labor. That’s not going to stop
Is the argument being made here, "Everybody's doing it"? God help us.
My interpretation was "If an industry that actively works to harm the global health of humanity through their addictive and unhealthy food products is using way more water and we're OK with it, maybe we should give a pass to the industry using a fraction of that water to improve human productivity."
Ton of nuance in my characterizations of both industries, of course, but to a first approximation they are accurate.
> and we're OK with it
Are we? Is anybody? Criticism doesn't need to be directed towards one thing at a time.
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No it’s a red herring (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_herring)
It’s a fundamentally flawed argument
What a weird stance. You agree to mislead or distract from a relevant or important question?
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