Comment by juleiie
9 days ago
This is who is wasting our computing power guys
I always feel guilty when I do such stupid stuff over Claude, these are all resources and limited computing. Enormous amounts of water and electricity. Gotta really think about what is it worth spending on. And is it, in fact, worth it at all.
AI is very selfish technology in this way. Every time you prompt you proclaim: My idea is worth the environmental impact. What I am doing is more important than a tree.
We have to use it responsibly.
The entire current AI industry is based on one huge hype-fueled resource grab— asthma-inducing, dubiously legal, unlicensed natural gas turbines and all. I doubt even most of the “worthwhile” tasks will be objectively considered worth the price when the dust clears.
I do appreciate this note more than others. It is food for thought. I think it could have been worded a lot more respectfully though.
No, it's not worded disrespectful enough... this idiot use of an idiotic technology needs to be called out.
As someone who isn't much into AI, you make me want to use AI more just to spite the eco-virtue-signaling idiots.
It's fun to harness all that computing power. That should be reason enough. Life is meant to be enjoyed.
And this is why this technology needs to be destroyed.
This is why I like to go on vacation every year and blow what for most individuals on the earth represents an entire lifetime of co2 emissions just on the airfare.
Take that virtue-signalers, by the time you figure out how to fix the planet I'll be dead.
Some things are signaling and some things are genuine worry. Learn to tell the difference
What an empty outlook on life you have
Did you raise tbe same point in pointless meetings that you participate? “Guys, stop quibbling, you are wasting precious resource”
Are you saying that you like pointless meetings that waste your time? I sure don't. My team generally does a lot of work to ensure that our meetings are short and productive. It's a point that comes up quite often.
I hope you feel the same way every time you eat beef.
Maybe I do, or maybe I am very selfish and I think that my palate is more important than cows? Or maybe cows wouldn't even exist at all without the cheeseburgers?
I think their point was that beef farming has an enormously negative environmental impact, and we in the west in fact do overconsume meat. Though I think their point was to use AI with impunity, when I think we should cut back on our meat consumption a lot.
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Literal whataboutism
Exactly the same as pointing out that LLMs use energy. That whole conversation probably used as much energy as making a piece of toast.
No, there is nothing fallacious about accurately pointing out that someone is being inconsistent or irrational by caring about minor issues while ignoring larger issues of the same kind.