I feel like discussiong ai with people who hated the seat belt, enjoyed smoking inside, giving babies alcohol and doing operations on babies because they couldn't feel pain. So many more people have clear stances against AI but the energy consumption of bitcoin was seldomly a hotly debated topic. Lets be clear, technology advances. You can embrace it and learn it and use it, or you lose. For me most shocking thing is…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_bitcoi...
Also were not building out compute in any meaningful way, theres only actually been a couple of fundamental advancements to how we understand NN on a fundamental level, whats really changed is theres now a few companies with enough resources to throw an ungodly amount of compute power at a clearly already plateauing line of tech. To the detriment to every other opportunity.