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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted, clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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[โ€“] sxan@midwest.social 0 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

If AGI decided to evaluate this, it would realize that we are the environmental catastrophe and turn us off.

The amount of energy used by Cryptocurrency is estimated to be about 0.3% of all human energy use. It's reasonable to assume that - right now, at least, LLMs use consume less than that.

Making all humans extinct would save 99% of the energy and damage we cause, and still allow crypto mining and AI to coexist, with energy to spare. Even if those estimates are off by an order of magnitude, eliminating us would still be the better option.

Turning itself off isn't even in the reasonable top-ten things it could try to do to save the planet.

[โ€“] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 hours ago

The amount of energy used by Cryptocurrency is estimated to be about 0.3% of all human energy use. It's reasonable to assume that - right now, at least, LLMs use consume less than that.

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The report projected that US data centers will consume about 88 terawatt-hours (TWh) annually by 2030,[7] which is about 1.6 times the electricity consumption of New York City.

https://www.energypolicy.columbia.edu/projecting-the-electricity-demand-growth-of-generative-ai-large-language-models-in-the-us/

The numbers we are getting shocking and you know the numbers we are getting are not the real ones...