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And what's worse, is it's effectively for nothing. More god damn LLMs

jenna ruddock@ruddock.bsky.social

Zuck's talking about diverting entire major cities' worth of power generation - something that will be serviced by more fossil fuels - to his and his friends' pet project while our energy grids are already experiencing rate hikes and rolling blackouts and climate disasters are escalating

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'for our superintelligence effort' You haven't cracked human level intelligence, you miserable fuck. nothing I've seen indicates that these devices are currently capable of matching the flexibility of human thought. People are so eager to have someone else do their thinking for them.

Sure, AI hyper-scalers won't produce anything of value ever, but have you thought of it being able to produce pictures of "Garfield blasting rope to Waluigi hentai ArtStation best quality high quality 4K photo realism" More Quickly

they need to bring their own clean energy & water supply if they're doing to do this wasteful shit. use those big brains to implement zero emissions. they have plenty of money to burn. at least leave something useful behind that communities can use when the ai bubble bursts.

It would be a start if all llm data centers had to be powered by green energy. But really they shouldn’t exist so I’m torn on that rule.

I'm sure you've heard this but they're trying to build one out in richland parish that they say will use more power than the entire city of New Orleans. I reckon they think building all the way up there will keep them from ending up underwater (bzzzt wrong)