So why do you recycle? Based on your argument, you're just wasting your own time or "shooting yourself in the foot".

Because recycling takes relatively little effort for me and, aside from costing extra, doesn’t really negatively impact me. Giving up LLMs is a completely different story.

I’m happy to “do my part” but I go in eyes wide open and I won’t be guilted into doing it if it negatively affects me if there is someone/thing having a much larger negative impact without consequences.

You want to fine/charge LLM data centers? Be my guest. Ask me to stop using LLMs? Yeah no.

Calls to completely stop using LLMs are beyond absurd at this point.