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Can anything be done to help this wretched twenty four

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im obsessed with this one guy on instagram who goes to that deer park in japan and takes videos of them set to 2000s pop punk and rock. all of the videos are like this

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he traded all his posessions for a piece of paper, and now he is realizing it. squidward really messed up, spongebobs never going to fucking give any of that shit back. is there anything left?

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play fun math games at www.deadwife.com

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thinking of trying this new thing called saying a normal sentence

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COME GET YA’LL JUICE

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bug stoty

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queen what does this even mean

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can someone please change the fucking prophecy

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Fun thing about football right now is that there's a move called the "brotherly shove" that the Eagles do when they're very close to scoring, where the whole team puts their hands on the ass of the guy with the ball and physically propels him over the line into the endzone for the touchdown, and all the other teams' fans hate it because it's got such a ridiculously high rate of success for the Eagles and doesn't really seem to work for any other team. People are straight-up calling for this move to be banned, claiming it's "unstoppable" and gives an "unfair advantage" but it really and truly is a skill issue. The whole league hates this move because it only makes the Eagles win more often and nobody else can figure out how to do it right

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i am posting this here because while i knew it intellectually i never actually considered it as a point until now. but now that i have i want to bring this up to other people's attentions vis a vis why AI is an "uncorkable genie". the cat is thoroughly out of the bag. as it turns out, part of the math underlying the universe - the laws of physics and information - is that you can throw linear regression at a big enough pile of data, shake it, and have language fall out.

this is bad news to some good news to others and neutral news to a third stranger group but you can't re-bag the cat here. sorry!

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crossposting;

ok, i’m gonna throw the sources at the end. here is the napkin math let’s assume an average american, who eats an average amount of beef. this example person, Bob, also likes AI, and uses chatgpt 10 times a day. Bob eats 26.8 kg of beef a year, 1 kg of beef costs 60 MJ, total of 1,608 megajoules.

using chatgpt costs about 3 watt-hours per query (this is a very small unit of energy) or 0.0029 kWh/query. Bob makes 3650 queries per year (10 a day, every day). this is 1.0585 kWh/year. the megajoule to kwh conversion is 3.6 mj/kwh, just to keep our units square. Bob chatgpts 38.1 MJ per year.

that means bob fritters away 44x more energy just by eating beef (not even any other animal products like pork or chicken, just beef) than he does making 10 chatgpt queries a day. he could make 100 a day and he’d still be using 4x more energy just eating beef. and chatgpt won’t let you make 100 a day.

people see large numbers like terawatt hours and megajoules and gigasharts and get scared because the human brain isn’t designed to handle large numbers but the amount of energy used to query llms is minuscule and train them is on par with ‘making a couple of cars in a factory.’

So, regardless of the work being done, those new servers can consume a maximum of ~9 TWh/year, because that’s how much hardware exists. These numbers are in-line with a study from Goldman Sachs which estimates the total current power demand to be ~15 TWh/year, including demand from older and non-specialized chips. So, for the power use of AI in data centers overall, we see an approximate current annual usage of ~9 to ~15 TWh, or 4% of total data center power consumption.

it’s ok to be scared, and it’s okay to be scared about the future and ai in particular, but you have to understand that people want you to be scared for whatever purposes they see fit and you can resist that fear with knowledge and truth. anyway im gonna cite my sources now.

AI’s Power Demand: Calculating ChatGPT’s electricity consumption for handling over 365 billion user queries every year - BestBrokers.com

Per capita consumption of beef in the U.S. 2033 | Statista

Energy efficiency of meat and dairy production

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when youre nice to me this is who youre being nice to *picture of an evil dracula*