I am concerned about the energy abuse of LLMs, but it gets worse. AGI is right around the corner, and I fear that law of diminishing return may not apply due to advantages it will bring. We're in need of new, sustainable energy like nuclear now because it will not stop.
I can personally speak from the 80s, so that's not exactly a golden age of reliable information. There was concern about scale of infinite growth and power requirements in a perpetual 24/7 full-load timeshare by people that were almost certainly not qualified to talk about the subject.
I was never concerned enough to look into it, but I sure remember the FUD: "They are going to grow to the size of countries!" - "They are going to drink our oceans dry!" ... Like I said, unqualified people.
Another factor is that there aren't that many supercomputers in the world, a handful of thousand of them.
They never took off like the concerned feared. We don't even concern ourselves with their existence.
While I absolutely agree with everything you've stated, I'm not taking a moral position here. I'm just positing that the same arguments of concern have been on the table since the establishment of massive computational power regardless of how, or by whom, it was to be utilized.
Joy Reid of MSNBC went on record yesterday saying she finally saw the actual beheaded Israeli Palestinian baby photos from October 7th. Is there anything substantiated with this?
Opposite. I get the feeling that Willem Dafoe is a down-to-earth normal guy with a haunting voice, intense stare, and unsettling smile with extreme comical affect. He strikes me as an individual with the patience of a saint.
I got the game bundled with a SoundBlaster Live! Platinum 5.1 kit and played it before, during, and after 9/11, and was blown away by the coincidences that appeared eerily prescient during this time.
Trying to break that million point grind.
Damn, that was 25 years ago.