| You can’t just make up random numbers as part of an argument. |
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| Training the first model takes more than running it once it's made. It can be … |
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| Las Vegas doesn’t even have a million people. |
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| That number 300x isn’t possible. If the planned AI data centers in Las Vegas wi… |
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| Yes, and a data center that spends 3x as much on climate controlling per square… |
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| An AI data center spends a lot more on climate control than an office does. |
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| lol You aren't just keeping their brains climate controlled at the human offi… |
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| Computers generate more heat for a smaller amount of computation than a human b… |
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| Yes and the climate control energy expense for silicon work is much more effici… |
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| Why did you ask to stop seeing your daughters photos? |
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| GPUs live in buildings that require air conditioning. |
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| Your solution is just using a less energy efficient process so people waste th… |
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| It uses less than the process involving humans. Comparing brain energy use is … |
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| The level of CO2 in the Earth’s atmosphere doesn’t care if you don’t add it on. |
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| 1. Having more or less free time doesn’t affect how much energy people will use… |
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| You're adding in what they do in their new free time, and I'm not |
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| So should we waste resources by avoiding LLMs, because overall we'll be consumi… |
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| It’s not a fact. It’s just factually wrong. |
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| Automation could free people to do many things that use a lot resources, sure.… |
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| LLMs are increasing the amount of energy people use, not decreasing it. It’s rea… |
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| And if you think that people who use LLMs more often are going to turn their com… |
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| The Mac would be on longer if you were writing it manually |
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| Wrong, because the other example had 15 minutes more of the Mac being on. do… |
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| Any amount of energy that’s greater than zero and it’s more energy. That’s how i… |
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| I fucking explained this to you like 10 times. If you run an LLM on a MacBook,… |
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| It literally has to be a negative number to make you correct. It doesn’t take a… |
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| So you're saying the MacBook comparison isn't a fair way to check? Because bef… |
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| It doesn’t matter how many watts it uses, if it takes any energy at all to run … |
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| You don't want to check to prove me wrong? lol Anyone reading this knows why o… |
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| We can use Watt Hours, that seems fair to me. Do you agree? |
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| I don’t care about your comparison because you’re arguing for something that’s … |
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| You haven’t given any objective metrics! |
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| So you are going to do anything except tell me whether thats a fair comparison?… |
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| No, I believe in the objective metrics electricians and engineers use, we can u… |
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| More computation requires more energy, that’s just a basic fact of how computers… |
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| These random sources don't actually say what a LLM query uses. Did you even bot… |
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| You have this stupid idea that you can decide what’s true and then if you argue … |
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| I asked if you felt that comparison was fair, to start. |
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| How many sources do you want? https://news.mit.edu/2025/responding-to-generativ… |
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| Pick your comparison and we can. Do you still insist that 5 minutes of a Mac be… |
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| You've already weasled out of your original claim and are now going for the tec… |
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| You haven’t done any math at all. |
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| Then let's check and do the math 🤣 |
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| Whenever I talk with you I always have the feeling that you don’t really know w… |
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| That has nothing to do with what we were talking about: whether LLMs are electr… |
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| Everything consumes resources. Making and shipping school supplies, keeping yo… |
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| Except if you’re a college student and you do all your work on ChatGPT, when yo… |
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| That's how it works practically. A college student writing an essay is doing i… |
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