Luminous5481 [they/them]

here’s the neat thing. in the US, rules don’t apply when you’re rich.

lmao yeah ok dude sure

It seems way too harsh. Shit, I’m American, and if I was in his position, I would have done the same. I got zero loyalty any state, let alone to a government that treats people the way the terrorist government of the US does.

self hosted. I don’t use anything from a corporation that I don’t absolutely have to.

It’s absolutely a fair comparison. An LLM can’t use any more than 100% of the system resources. neither can a video game. for an individual, there’s no practical difference between being an avid gamer and someone who uses LLMs if you’re comparing environmental impact.

if you don’t agree, then perhaps you could explain to me how using 100% of my GPU for an LLM is different than using 100% of my GPU for Cyberpunk 2077? both use cases are using the same amount of power, so how is one use worse for the environment than the other? especially since I might use an LLM for a few minutes of work, whereas I’ve had many, many days where I spend 8 hours or more gaming. surely my gaming causes far more damage to the environment than my using LLMs does, but perhaps you’re more educated on the matter than I am and can show me otherwise.

LLMs as a technology are also extremely inefficient and resource intensive; by writing yourself off as “just one person” doing it we’re ignoring the global effect of many “one persons” all consuming resources by using this technology.

the same can be said of gaming. criticizing LLMs for being resource intensive even for individual use would be hypocritical if you’re not also criticising gamers for using their PCs to their full potential while gaming.

How shocking.

is it OK to let little kids starve when you can feed them and clean up the environment at the same time? and what’s with this quotation marks around the word earn? that’s some privileged bullshit from somebody who has clearly never been hungry or homeless.

the guides who make their living taking people up the mountain would be out of a job. the industry supports thousands of people, shutting it down would mean those families and their children would starve.

fair point

The April 2024 vote still stings for civil liberties advocates, who thought they could count on progressives as they sought to build a bipartisan coalition with libertarian-minded Republicans.

people need to stop counting on democrats to be against expanding government powers that curtail our freedoms.

these are people running from the war? if so, why not give them actual citizenship? they clearly do not want to live in Russia anymore, and I can’t blame them.

wild that the only reason he knows or cares about the violence in Nigeria is because he saw something about it on Fox News.

That’s going to make running anything on Windows rather uncomfortable.