Between billionaires having penis-waggling contests with rockets, megacorps slurping up electricity to feed their LLMs, gigantic Bitcoin miners reopening defunct coal plants to power their operations, and authoritarians cozying up to fossil fuel companies, I think there’s a lot more confounding factors to our survival than just bloated LLM processing centers.
Between billionaires having penis-waggling contests with rockets, megacorps slurping up electricity to feed their LLMs, gigantic Bitcoin miners reopening defunct coal plants to power their operations, and authoritarians cozying up to fossil fuel companies, I think there’s a lot more confounding factors to our survival than just bloated LLM processing centers.
It’s striking how these technologies do so little of use to ordinary people, yet they hog the world’s energy and the media’s attention.
Some just want to watch the world burn. Faster.