13 pointsby Aldipower3 hours ago6 comments
  • mitthrowaway22 hours ago
    Yes it does. It's kind of a fixed cost though, since we're going to feed and educate our youth anyway, unless Sam Altman would have those people to starve to death.
  • 7777777phil3 hours ago
    This comparison only works if you assume scaling keeps paying off. Sara Hooker's research shows (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5877662) compact models now outperform massive predecessors and scaling laws only predict pre-training loss, not downstream performance. If marginal returns on compute are falling (https://philippdubach.com/posts/the-most-expensive-assumptio...), "energy per query" hides the real problem, a trillion dollars of infrastructure built on the bet that they won't.
  • p0w3n3d34 minutes ago
    You are the carbon they want to reduce
  • bravetraveleran hour ago
    Now compare our waste and what might be extracted, psycho.
  • la647106 minutes ago
    Oh so sad … 20 years the corporate overlords have to wait for their minions to be ready…

    /s

  • kderbyma3 hours ago
    This what I expect from a mid marketing team.....not a supposed visionary thought leader (/s).....

    This is completely fallacious thinking that I assume is meant as a means of manipulating people who dont think deeply about the implications and procession of ideas that leads such obviously disingenuous intelluctual dishonesty....

    Waste heat....is not the same as a biologically closed loop which microbes, bacyerium, myceliums, and plants and aninals all work in a concerted effort....

    My Food becomes fertilizer....His waste becomes nothing of utility (unless they have amazing efficiencies that defy what we know about physics...)

    • 878654Toman hour ago
      It also just doesn't make sense. Like, we train a human and that takes 20 years of food.

      To train an LLM it needed a collection of 800TiB of data (The Pile). To generate that pile, you needed millions to billions of humans. So did training the LLM now suddenly take 20.000.000 billion years of food or are we not allowed to make the same shitty comparison.