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Ketan Joshi

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Every single year has been worse than the last, when it comes to the completely obscene energy greed of Bitcoin mining.

Probably a decent chance it ends up causing more harm through this than machine learning training / inference ever will...

ccaf.io/cbnsi/cbeci

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Jennifer R. Povey's avatar Jennifer R. Povey @ninjafingers.bsky.social
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Almost certainly, but that doesn't mean we should continue to promote AI being used for purposes humans can do better. We can go after both.

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Mark D's avatar Mark D @markjd84.bsky.social
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Truly the lowest of low hanging fruit for emissions reduction. Plus strictly tightening BTC regs might put a dent in the viability of ransomware attacks (British hospitals!)

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Ketan Joshi's avatar Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co
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.....as you can see I decided to change absolutely nothing about my chart formatting choices :D

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