People being pedantic and not even having the decency to be correct with it just annoys me.

I was commenting on your incorrect pedantry correcting a perfectly correct sentence.

If I do whatever I want with my paintbrush, that doesn’t imply the paintbrush has agency.

No the point is that a Japanese focused company can optimise for a design that works best in Japan without having to consider how other people would interact with it.

A multinational like Amazon has to balance what works best in a particular market with retaining a consistent identity across markets and having shared functionality between different locations.

France exported 10TWh during July at the peak of the heatwave, their nuclear powerplants were feeding into other countries grids even during these partial shutdowns.

https://app.electricitymaps.com/

And yet, despite that, France still has some of the cleanest electricity in the world with prices in line with the rest of Europe and exported about 10TWhrs of electricity during July.

I agree that downtime is bad, but I don’t think abandoning nuclear to go all in on solar which has a minimum downtime of 50% or wind which has extended periods of <10% is a solution to that. Given that we need electrification to replace fossil fuels in transport and heating over the next few decades to prevent catastrophic climate change, the only reasonable course IMO is to build out as much as possible of nuclear and renewables.

Turns out, even when you have to throttle them down slightly due to drought, having a large amount of available nuclear power, like France and Sweden do, means you emit an awful lot less carbon.

Was supposed to say illegal, the argument didnt work with saying legal.

The difference is that a hand grenade is illegal to own. A series of matrix multiplications is not.

A better comparison is a knife. If you throw that in the air and it lands on someone you are responsible, the person who sold you a potentially dangerous but legal tool is not.

Edit illegal, not legal. silly mistake

I know you think you’re being witty, but autonomous robotic surgery is a hot tech that is starting to push into active use.

Deleting (or editing) comments does not change what the hosting website has, it just updates what they display. so there will be lines in a database saying:

• the original comment was “blah”
• on the 6th of August 2024 it was changed to “blah2”
• and the 20 of January the comment was deleted

There isnt a way for you to remove that unless there is some legal mechanism for you to force them to remove all data about you.

Power is pretty much the only part of space data centres that does make sense. You can put them in an orbit to get 24hr solar power and its stronger than on the ground as there’s no atmosphere in the way. Large foldable solar panels are available, and unlike radiators you don’t have to pump liquids through them.

Other than hype (which is by far the major driving force behind companies talking about them) access to that power without regulation is the reason you would want to put them in space.

That’s utterly ridiculous.

It takes at least 5 seconds to turn on a VPN and reload a page.

Huh? There’s no reasons for rivers to not run north, the longest river in the world runs south to north.

A) electricity is only a small fraction of energy use, as I stated before

B) there are also areas where none of the energy use is AI, cherry picking small regions to make your argument is dishonest

I’ll try one last time, but I won’t respond again. Its fine to think AI is a waste and energy shouldn’t be spent on in. Saying that it is worth the deaths of thousands of people in order to cut carbon emissions by a fraction of a percent makes you a psychopath.

Sure, fine. That’s a reasonable stance to take.

Saying its worth the deaths of thousands of people to knock maybe one part in a thousand of human carbon emissions is not.

Let me give you some scale. In 2024 estimated Power usage on AI was 415TWh In the same year total energy usage was around 592 Exajoules or around 164,444 TWhr.

Or to give you a visual:

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The "o"s are AI usage the +s are other energy usages, the +s are significantly more polluting as about 2/3rds of them are burning fossil fuels directly for heating and transport.

There are plenty of plans already in place. EVs are beating ICE cars, mass transit is coming back into fashion in a lot of places, hell you could even just increase taxes on it to drive down consumption.

All are things I’d suggest would be better than your sister/father/partner being killed in order to sour people on the idea of using LLMs.

Ok, just wanted to check I wasnt misunderstanding. Personally I’d rather just reduce gasolene consumption by 0.001% rather than kill off thousands to stop the energy use of LLMs, but thats just my preference.

To be clear, you think its a fair trade for thousands of people to die so that other people stop using a computer program you dislike. Am I getting that right?