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We need more effective LLM-crunching chips at least to shut up those crazy anti-"AI" activists who scream about water and energy while driving their asses to the market on car, buying washed carrots each packed in a polymer bag and do a billion other completely useless energy-consuming shit everyday.
Stop. We literally don't. Whereas, we actually do need water and energy and markets and carrots...
So don't use LLMs. Just don't. Problem solved! Leave the tool to those who need it.
Are you... going out of your way to be obstinate? Or are you just selfish? Our (society's) resource availability affects all of us. It's not "problem solved" if I choose not to use LLMs. Either way, our water, power, and land going to datacenters absolutely still impacts the rest of us, so yeah; we're allowed an opinion. Not too mention the skyrocketing cost and scarcity of RAM, SSDs, computer chips, and now... But don't worry, I'll still hire you to pick carrots when the AI bubble bursts and all of this goes away!
Listen, the problem is not in LLMs per se. And you know that perfectly well. The problem is that too many people use energy-consuming technology without any reason. Like kids running the steam engine for heats and puffs. Fight "kids", not steam engines. LLMs is important stage (as steam engines were at some point) of technology development. We can't skip it. It is impossible.
Electric cars don't make car-centric urbanism ok.
Neither does more efficient AI resource usage.
That's actually not the case in many parts of the world where public transport is widely used and people from different economic groups purchase stuff at the market (something similar to farmers' markets in the US, but more mainstream).
Note I am not anti-AI per se (I use LLM a lot for certain low risks tasks at work and some hobby stuff). I do oppose corruption, oligarchs, closed markets and VC activity de facto founded on rent-seeking and criminality; so in one sense, yes, I am anti-AI.
In those "many parts of the world" people don't scream at the tool because some crazies are too dumb to use if for something useful. In those parts of the world people scream at imbeciles who misuse tools.
Lots of typos in my part. :) corrected.