I did this yesterday and it was happy to provide me with an incorrect explanation. Not just that, but incorrect thermodynamic data supporting its claims, despite readily available published values to the contrary.
It wasn't an argument. There isn't much point in going to a lot of trouble to make an argument to someone so clearly determined to ignore the truth. It is nevertheless true.
Just saying something is true doesn't make it so. Truth requires justification, and if you can't provide that, then there's no reason to believe it's true. For someone making a claim, the onus is on them to provide evidence.
Otherwise I'll just say I'm right and you're wrong, after all, that's what you're saying.
It's already using on the order of 1% of global energy, and there are active plans to expand that by a factor of 5 or more in the near future. That's as a percentage of current energy use, which is already way higher than it should be, so if all other sectors reduced theirs to sustainable levels it would be like 5% now and 25% planned. It's a bit more complicated when you account for renewable energy, but certainly adding consumption is not helping there. Now that buildout may not happen as planned/advertised, but I think it's very reasonable to worry about new things that make the situation worse even by a few percentage points when you need to make things better overall by much more than that to make progress. Of course this is not to say that we shouldn't be worried about/working on other sources of consumption that are currently a larger fraction -- we need to keep doing that too. But giving a pass to hundreds of TWh from AI junk in favor of trying to reduce the thousands of TWh from some other source by a couple hundred is a good way to erase the gains that you make over there.
Come on, if the first thing that comes to your mind is something responsible for 1% with projection of 5% emissions then it’s clear that you don’t really care about actual solutions but prefer to parrot current rhetoric from social media. Why not focus on the biggest contributors?
There are important additions beyond timeboxing, at least according to the post. Notably, reverting your changes if you weren't able to complete the chosen task in the time box and starting over on a chosen subset of that task. I can imagine that part has benefits, though I haven't tried it myself.
For some people the relevant properties of "thing" include not needing overpowered hardware to run it comfortably. So "thing" does not just "exist", at least not in the form of electron.
Lmfao. The front page is littered with whining about the craft from people who can’t argue coherently why I should go back to getting yelled at by a linter.
It’s all “I can’t think anymore” or “software bad now” followed by a critique of the industry circa 2015.
Most of the people making cool stuff with LLMs are making it, not writing blog posts hoping to be a thought leader.
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