'Bitcoin alone is estimated to consume 127 terawatt-hours (TWh) a year — more than many countries, including Norway. In the United States, cryptocurrency activity is estimated to emit from 25 to 50 million tons of CO2 each year, '
We already know Proof-of-Work (PoW) is wasteful and that is outside of my point. My point is, crypto already has greener alternatives to PoW available today and a former PoW blockchain was able to switch to a greener alternative, proof-of-stake, making that a known possibility.
Deep Learning on the other hand has NO known efficient alternative methods in training / fine-tuning and inference of their AI models today. All these models are complete black-boxes that require costly fine-tuning, retraining and can hallucinate on the slightest bad input. Once that happens, go through the same wasteful steps again.
> Ml has real benefit crypto doesn't.
AI bullshit generators, disinformation accelerants and the proliferation of deep fakes sure is a better use case than transparent transactions being viewed by anyone on a public chain making fraud harder to commit and easier for the authorities to trace up. /s
AI grifters will do anything to drive and burn the whole world to the ground for their so-called utopian AGI end-game nonsense to pretend about having 'real benefit' to everyone.
There you have it. Absolutely ZERO examples of existing technologies to solve the eternal emissions problem that Deep Learning still has for training, inference and fine-tuning at scale in both cost and waste created.
All hype and hot air from the AI bros.
> Ml/agi is revolutionizing our society.
A 'revolution' in unchecked nonsense.
This sort of euphoria without any consideration of the downsides and regulations to even begin reasoning about this AGI fantasy that won't help anyone other than accelerating more bullshit, disinformation and deep-fakes.
I see. Thanks for the comment. I'm resentful towards friends and family who are anti-vaxxers and downplay the danger, esp since I have elderly parents at risk. I'm mid 60's, they're mid 80's.
> just racist or stupid
I don't see that. China opened up. 230 million Chinese got infected. It mutated. A more transmissible mutation has been reported. I live in Silicon Valley with close ties to China. I live in an Asian neighborhood. I've lived here for three years. I've interacted plenty with my neighbors and shopped Asian stores. My experience has been pleasant. I have been careful and not changed my behavior.
There's a chance the more transmissible mutation made it's way from China to the San Jose airport and to the Trader Joe's across the highway where I picked it up. Since I went three years and did nothing different, it's just a theory I have. Maybe my symptoms are different. Time will tell. Nothing about what I just said is racist. I am not a racist.
Nothing you have said has refuted the idea that I got a new mutation in March, which might medically be good for me to know. Instead you call me racist and stupid for emotional reasons that I'm not interested in.
There's very few Trump people in San Jose and very large Asian population so there's no discrimination. People here are worried about the large amount of travel between Silicon Valley and China. Santa Clara County was the first in the nation to lock down and the Asian community is still very careful. It's quite possible that I have a new mutation and it will be interesting to find out if this turns into long Covid after 12 weeks (I'm on week 6). I apologize for not making this clear and sounding like a racist.
Ml has real benefit crypto doesn't.
'Bitcoin alone is estimated to consume 127 terawatt-hours (TWh) a year — more than many countries, including Norway. In the United States, cryptocurrency activity is estimated to emit from 25 to 50 million tons of CO2 each year, '