This is who is wasting our computing power guys

I always feel guilty when I do such stupid stuff over Claude, these are all resources and limited computing. Enormous amounts of water and electricity. Gotta really think about what is it worth spending on. And is it, in fact, worth it at all.

AI is very selfish technology in this way. Every time you prompt you proclaim: My idea is worth the environmental impact. What I am doing is more important than a tree.

We have to use it responsibly.

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DrewADesign 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The entire current AI industry is based on one huge hype-fueled resource grab— asthma-inducing, dubiously legal, unlicensed natural gas turbines and all. I doubt even most of the “worthwhile” tasks will be objectively considered worth the price when the dust clears.

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signatoremo 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Did you raise tbe same point in pointless meetings that you participate? “Guys, stop quibbling, you are wasting precious resource”

	▲	olyjohn 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Are you saying that you like pointless meetings that waste your time? I sure don't. My team generally does a lot of work to ensure that our meetings are short and productive. It's a point that comes up quite often.

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fhub 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I do appreciate this note more than others. It is food for thought. I think it could have been worded a lot more respectfully though.

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sharifhsn 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I hope you feel the same way every time you eat beef.

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juleiie 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Maybe I do, or maybe I am very selfish and I think that my palate is more important than cows? Or maybe cows wouldn't even exist at all without the cheeseburgers?

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asddubs 4 hours ago | parent [-]

I think their point was that beef farming has an enormously negative environmental impact, and we in the west in fact do overconsume meat. Though I think their point was to use AI with impunity, when I think we should cut back on our meat consumption a lot.

	▲	brianwawok an hour ago \| parent [-]
		If tokens and beef came from the same limited “credit pool”, I would for sure be vegan so I could work more tokens

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sumeno an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Literal whataboutism