10 times as much electricity for much worse results, ABSOLUTE GENIUS
Jun 21, 2024 at 19:25 UTC
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Now hold on a minute. My crazy uncle told me that he saw on Facebook that electric cars are the problem.
But for reals, I believe there's a crypto mining operation in Texas that uses more electricity than some countries. As in like, countries.
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Everything since 2000 has been a slow rolling dumpster fire. A cyber truck if you will.
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Except, of course, that Google are now running your search through *their* Artificial Unintelligence, too...
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Maybe they'll push for a bunch of renewable energy projects and infrastructure improvements before they all implode for being worthless tech lies?
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I know how to solve the problem!
<goes online to ChatGPT, types> How can we use AI to make AI use less power?
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Why does it sound like bitcoin(s)
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A miracle solution, you say?
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But how will you learn which words in the English language are more likely to come after other words? That’s got to be worth 9x more energy usage, yes? /s
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To be fair, it's been a decade since techbros have been concerned with "better" instead of "more profitable through forced inefficiency"
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"So nobody wants this, and it's worse than the product we're trying to compete with, but at least it costs far more to run!"
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ST:TOS forecast this. The M5 computer, needing more power, vaporizes redshirt and steals juice from the warp engines.
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Gotta use MOAR electricity if we’re ever gonna reach a Kardashev Type I civilization 💪
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Luddite Time.
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Better use ecosia for searches, they plant trees with the money they're making and built enough solar panels to power all the searches.
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Sam Altman has been tap-dancing around the power issue for quite a while.
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Looks like we have a blowout on one of the wheels of progress.
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Legislation is needed to secure water and power for citizens first, useless tech last
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That's on brand
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The TX electric grid operator is pointing to AI and crypto as consuming vast amounts of electricity, and the demand will double by 2030. We don't have the generation or transmission to sustain that demand.
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