[–] 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

You’re totally right, I was trying to word it in a way that was in line with the survey results since the meme wasn’t so clear. But also I totally should have explained more since I complain about others not explaining enough all the time.

What I meant by AI was LLMs specifically.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    It was either that or suddenly be the slowest person at work, which eventually gets you canned.

    turns out, you can just refuse to do so and you'll still be just as fast as everyone else (source: me). Turns out that you'll actually do the same amount of work and you don't have to babysit a robot all day long losing your mind.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    it gets down to whether experts are experts at everything. Linus is not an expert at anything outside of kernel maintenance. His opinions on whether we should use LLMs are null and void considering the massive effect on the planet. It'd be like if a nuclear engineer said we should be building more nuclear bombs for everyone to use, just so they could use nuclear engineer more freely. Like, their opinions about nuclear energy might be fine, but their opinions that have an effect on the entire planet are completely wack.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    To be clear, this isn’t about data centers. It’s about unrestricted AI data centers. The difference between a normal scale data center and a hyperscale AI data center from a water use perspective is 6 million gallons a year vs over 2 billion gallons a year. Like, they’re not even close. We had responsible data centers and life was fine. Now it’s not.

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