| 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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| An LLM isn’t a substitute for a lamp, it’s an irrelevant comparison. |
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| Yes, using a lamp would require more than not. You want to look at half the e… |
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| You’re trying to argue that doing more computation on a computer takes less ener… |
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| No it’s correct, doing anything takes energy. It always takes more energy to do… |
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| So you don't actually want to calculate it, lol. Backing out and calling names… |
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| You said the LLM used more than not using it. That's wrong, because when don't… |
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| I feel like I’m arguing with an idiot. |
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| I already responded to that point, by saying that the machine would need to be … |
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| Dude, don’t quote me if you’re not going to read the whole sentence I wrote. |
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| Do you not see how what I just said invalidates the entire point you’ve been tr… |
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| lol, you went from "it's obvious" to realizing the truth quickly. … |
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| So you realized the MacBook being left on for 15 more minutes made it a landsli… |
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| Even if using an LLM takes less energy than using a laptop, if you have to have … |
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| I don’t understand why you’re not really understanding the point I’m making. Us… |
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| It's not hard to calculate, so let's do that instead of just saying it's the ca… |
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| You have a habit of saying it's bad, without actually pointing out errors. We… |
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| It’s still more energy. You’re trying to argue something that’s just obviously n… |
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| And? You’re not going to use an LLM with your MacBook turned off now are you? |
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| You’re not really making a good argument. |
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| I did. The cost of using an LLM several times is going to be much, much less t… |
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| Are you having trouble following the conversation? We were comparing the elect… |
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| Just make your argument. |
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| How much electricity do you think it takes to use an LLM per query? |
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| I’m not avoiding admitting I’m wrong, I’m not admitting I’m wrong because I’m n… |
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| You're changing the subject to avoid admitting you're wrong. Using an LLM cons… |
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| What’s the value in generating an essay? You don’t learn anything by doing that… |
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| Which would mean writing it yourself uses even more electricity... |
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| No, that's not true. |
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| It’s not going to be an essay worth reading unless you edit it for more than te… |
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| Writing an essay yourself on a Mac still uses less power than writing an essay … |
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