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So far I was aversive of Asahi Linux mostly due to the furry anime girl roleplay thing, but this is something I can stand by!
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>First of all, it isn't wrong. The power consumption of AI training and inference is massive. This is massively overstated. We ought to be more careful in performing such calculations.
To quote [1]: > Alex de Vries is a Ph.D. candidate at VU Amsterdam and founder of the digital-sustainability blog Digiconomist. In a report published earlier this month in Joule, de Vries has analyzed trends in AI energy use. He predicted that current AI technology could be on track to annually consume as much electricity as the entire country of Ireland (29.3 terawatt-hours per year). That's a lot of power, and the…
Population of Ireland is .06% of world's population btw.
The submission title should be “Asahi Linux Generative AI Policy”
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To quote [1]: > Alex de Vries is a Ph.D. candidate at VU Amsterdam and founder of the digital-sustainability blog Digiconomist. In a report published earlier this month in Joule, de Vries has analyzed trends in AI energy use. He predicted that current AI technology could be on track to annually consume as much electricity as the entire country of Ireland (29.3 terawatt-hours per year). That's a lot of power, and the…
what is it as a percentage of all electricity used in the world? as a percentage of air travel? of using netflix? of eating meat? Population of Ireland is .06% of world's population btw.
So far I was aversive of Asahi Linux mostly due to the furry anime girl roleplay thing, but this is something I can stand by!
Do I miss something? I've been following the project since the beginning and just checked the wiki, the website and all over the documentation and haven't found something relevant to anime.
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First of all, it isn't wrong. The power consumption of AI training and inference is massive. Second, that page is obviously meant to shed light at AI issues from a lot of different viewpoints, it would have been a serious omission to not mention environmental concerns.
>First of all, it isn't wrong. The power consumption of AI training and inference is massive. This is massively overstated. We ought to be more careful in performing such calculations.
I am by no means an AI/ML evangelist, but these types of posts just come off as something written by modern day luddites.
Luddites in what sense? Because there's the lazy, gross stereotype that's been perpetuated with negative connotation and the movement that was not at face anti-technology, but against how that technology was used to suppress labor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite
Dumb or evil, either way they are not people to be celebrated.
I am by no means an AI/ML evangelist, but these types of posts just come off as something written by modern day luddites.
Luddites in what sense? Because there's the lazy, gross stereotype that's been perpetuated with negative connotation and the movement that was not at face anti-technology, but against how that technology was used to suppress labor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite
This is very hard to take seriously, it feels ideologically driven. The introduction where they claim LLMs are useless for software engineering is just incorrect. They are useful for many software engineering tasks. I do think that vibe coding is rubbish however, and more junior SWEs very regularly misuse LLMs to produce nonsense code. The only substantive point is that the LLM may regurgitate pieces of proprietary t…