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A hundred years ago I’d agree with you that technological progress is more important. Now, I don’t know. We need to be triaging the climate crisis instead of wasting time making shit exponentially worse. I half jokingly believe that western knowledge workers should go full luddite and smash data centers and backups. Joking because western knowledge workers would never do that in a million years.

Well I agree with you there. Too bad there’s all this capitalism.

We’ve been seeing great strides in reducing that power hunger recently, including by the LLM that’s the subject of this post.

Due to the market economy in both the United State and China, further development of LLM efficiency is probably the worst thing that could possibly happen. Even if China did not want to subject LLMs to market forces, they are going to need to compete with the US. This is going further accelerate the climate disaster.