The cost of simply retrieving an answer from the Web is infinitely smaller than the cost of generating a new one.

Great interview with Sasha Luccioni from Huggingface on all the ways that using generative AI for everything is both a) hugely costly compared to existing methods, and b) insane.

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42 points

holy shit your post history of full of takes this bad, that’s an impressive track record of dim. must be exhausting

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33 points

oh wow there’s some literal “it’s not a nazi unless it’s an old dead German” shit in there, they’re that kind of fash debatebro

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yeah, they don’t teach much about fascist atrocities in ethiopia, and then people feel compelled to defend the good name of the boys in the black shirts because the poor dupes didn’t build the concentration camps – just were allied to the builders.

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10 points

yeah sorry I kinda undersold it

thank fuck they came out swinging

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And yet, my opponents in discussion failed to provide good counterarguments. You aren’t going to convince me of anything by hating my post history

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36 points

And yet, my opponents in discussion

good gods you’re going to be the most insufferable kind of person, aren’t you

You aren’t going to convince me of anything

this was a bit of a given

bet you also think the climate cost of cryptocurrency is also a failing of the energy sector to deliver clean power to the innocent sweet little industrial-scale mining tycoons, don’t you

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25 points

Nope it isn’t. You blame AI companies for pollution they didn’t generate. Blame the energy sector.

don’t talk about providing good counterarguments, please

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see, because they can’t provide their own, talking about good arguments is all they have left

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What, you want to tell me I’m somehow obligated to exactly know where and how every service I use is produced?

Talk about a horrible take.

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