As far as energy goes, its a matter of degree. LLMs are mainly bad emissions-wise because of the volume of calls being made. If you’re running it on your GPU, you could have been playing a game or something similarly emitting.

The issue is more image generation models which are 1000 times worse https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/12/01/1084189/making-an-image-with-generative-ai-uses-as-much-energy-as-charging-your-phone/

Original Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2311.16863

A moderately sized text-to-text model that you would run locally is about 10g of carbon for 1000 inferences which is driving a car about 1/40th of a mile. Even assuming your model is running in some kind of agentic loop, maybe 5 inferences / actual response (though it could be dozens depending on the architecture) that gets to you, that’s 10gcarbon / 200 messages to your model which is at least 2-3 sessions on the heavy end I would think. You could use it for a year and its equivalent to driving 3 miles if you do that every day.

Image generation, however, is 1000-1500x that so just chatting with your GF isn’t that bad. Generating images is where it really adds up.

I wouldn’t trust these numbers exactly, they’re more ball-park. There’s optimizations that they don’t include and there’s a million other variables that could make it more expensive. I doubt it would be more than 10-20 miles in a car / year for really heavy usage though.

From a billionaire’s perspective, more at risk children means more people to be exploited. There’s a whole industry fed by cheap prison labor. Orphans who go through the prison system are incarcerated or arrested at nearly 50% much of which gets funneled into cheap labor.

It seems like you’re not from the US, but it doesn’t matter how many working class votes we have, many industries in this country thrive off of exploitation of people outside of the view of the general populace starting with slaves, continuing to indentured servants, and undocumented workers now. The next exploitable labor pool is the prison system, and children who would have been aborted are sent to foster care instead where they are funneled into the criminal justice system.

I’m not saying you should have an abortion just so the child doesn’t potentially end up in jail, I’m just pointing out how the incentives to have a permanent underclass would actually support bans on abortion.

I’m wondering if you’re maybe thinking of the book Freakonomics where they attribute the legalization of abortion with the drop in crime?

Please explain how abortions mean more money for billionaires.

Forget DHS or other government agencies, these companies have been shown to be untrustworthy stewards of our data from regular hackers.

I get that discord is used to groom kids and there is a very real risk to allowing children to use it unsupervised, but that means kids devices are the ones that need to be locked down, not the rest of the world.

Pick something with a good window manager, typing into a terminal without fingers and thumbs is going to be tricky.

Low margins because they’re expected to have returns equal or better than alternative investments. If they drop below that, then its not worth running a grocery store and you might as well liquidate and put your money where it will make higher returns.

If you don’t care about that, or can even run on a slight loss with some taxpayer subsidies then you can make the food a lot more affordable.

Clearly all those gay bars and drag shows used up too much electricity.

If you want to say the overall conditions that led to this were profit motivated (ie high car owning, excessive land used for roads), then sure. But the specific decision not to add a bike lane or sidewalk likely wasn’t directly motivated by automotive lobbying.

This level of spaghetti is usually a lack of design, don’t attribute to malice that which can be attributed to incompetence.

Some species of ants form rafts and “swim” on water.

Honestly, Canada takes Minnesota and the great lake state, and the east and west coasts form their own countries might not be the worst outcome in 10 years or so.

They’re not saying immigrants never commit crimes, but that they commit them at much lower rates than us born citizens.

If you’re trying to reduce crime, the effective thing to do is target where it actually is rather than scrounging for crumbs where you would like it to be.

There’s also off-label usage for drugs where a doctor will prescribe a medication for a different effect than what is originally intended, that’s basically a positive side effect.

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We all should practice self love

Isn’t the positive side effect making you feel better, or curing some negative condition?

From my perspective, I would think of it as a sexual health issue, so there’s no reason to tell them. I would tell my parents if I had a flu, I’m not going out of my way to tell them if I’m taking a male enhancement drug or about my condom use.

Why is Suozzi even in the democratic party. Isn’t he the one who said that DSA members didn’t belong in his democratic party and they should go make their own while he is the one voting against the party, the people, and the constitution?

Where was Jeffries in all of this?

I think a lot of people don’t understand basic finance.

Having healthy savings let’s you spend money, figure out how to save for long term so it can accrue interest and give you supplemental income (basic mutual fund, nothing crazy).

If you can afford a trip, you can afford to spend $500 less and put that into savings. Even $10 a week quickly and up and compounds, especially if you start young.

It’s not just about not spending, it’s about putting the extra cash somewhere smart so it goes itself so you’re but sacrificing as much but still having that financial security.

Its not just canada, its anywhere that gets snow regularly. I’ve lived throughout the northeast US and there’s these idiots everywhere.