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0 pointsbluefirebrand9mo ago0 comments

The difference is that food is important and live-giving and LLMs are a very fancy magic 8-ball

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j-pb9mo ago

You don't need beef, beef is a lifestyle choice.

I use LLMs to do all of my coding these days, it's certainly more essential for feeding me than beef.

leksak9mo ago

Also a lifestyle choice

j-pb9mo ago

Yes but one with a much much much smaller impact as we just demonstrated.

This is exactly the kind of cognitive dissonance in people that I meant.

You literally see the math and go "but I like my meat, why should I give that up if you got your AI".

Because, as I just demonstrated, my AI takes a infinitesimal fraction of your meat.

It literally takes you only going vegan for a day to offset your entire AI usage of a year.

jrflowers9mo ago

This is spot on because there can’t be two issues that exist simultaneously. There can only be one thing that wastes enormous amounts of energy and that thing is beef

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mlnj9mo ago

Nothing stopping us to live the hermit life in the mountains. But here we are trying to get bits and bytes to write that JIRA ticket instead of us.

motoxpro9mo ago

You could eat a few bites less of beef in one meal and that would be your equivalent AI use for a lifetime.

tptacek9mo ago

Where does a Youtube LetsPlay video fall into that calculation? My understanding is that a single watch of a video is orders of magnitude more than a day's active use of ChatGPT.

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j-pb9mo ago

You don't need beef, beef is a lifestyle choice.

I use LLMs to do all of my coding these days, it's certainly more essential for feeding me than beef.

leksak9mo ago

Also a lifestyle choice

j-pb9mo ago

Yes but one with a much much much smaller impact as we just demonstrated.

This is exactly the kind of cognitive dissonance in people that I meant.

You literally see the math and go "but I like my meat, why should I give that up if you got your AI".

Because, as I just demonstrated, my AI takes a infinitesimal fraction of your meat.

It literally takes you only going vegan for a day to offset your entire AI usage of a year.

jrflowers9mo ago

This is spot on because there can’t be two issues that exist simultaneously. There can only be one thing that wastes enormous amounts of energy and that thing is beef

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mlnj9mo ago

Nothing stopping us to live the hermit life in the mountains. But here we are trying to get bits and bytes to write that JIRA ticket instead of us.

motoxpro9mo ago

You could eat a few bites less of beef in one meal and that would be your equivalent AI use for a lifetime.

tptacek9mo ago

Where does a Youtube LetsPlay video fall into that calculation? My understanding is that a single watch of a video is orders of magnitude more than a day's active use of ChatGPT.

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