people are worried about how ai is using up all the water, but it’s actually the only way that we can stop sea level rise. also water is stored in the ai model only during training. when you use the model, the water is released again.
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@Plinz
it’s the same like with bitcoin. people were worried that bitcoin uses up all the energy. but the energy is only needed when you create the bitcoin (“mining” = “proof of work”). bitcoin is a store of value, and the energy gets released when you spend it
people are worried about how ai is using up all the water, but it’s actually the only way that we can stop sea level rise. also water is stored in the ai model only during training. when you use the model, the water is released again.
@neoconbill it's mostly a matter of the weights. models with heavy weights release heavy metals, while lighter models release microplastics, vitamins and trace minerals. your body needs a healthy mixture of all of them
@Plinz @not_gay_fish He's right. I power my house by spending Bitcoin during the winter.
(But just a little bit at a time. I don't want to burn my house down.)
@not_gay_fish tesla is curently working on a secret battery project that encodes the stored energy with a crypto algorithm (not bitcoin, probably doge). at the moment, charging by encoding is still slow, and accelerating depends on the size of the onboard computer. you should watch that space
@neoconbill you were the one claiming that data centers leech heavy metals into the environment
@Plinz Are you joking? Energy gets released when you spend bitcoin? I thought you were smart.
In Ohio, we have datacenters going up everywhere. I work in them. I like building them, I like everything about them.
However, we also have the most water on the east coast. It drains into the entire south. The Ohio River valley.
If you tell these people you are releasing this stuff in the water, they are going to think it's going to kill the wildlife and mess up all the streams and rivers here.
My only point is, if you want to keep these datacenters, we need to find a way to message better.
@Plinz That's not going to make anything better ya know.
Everyone is freaking out cause it's going to put heavy metal and pfas in the water.
And you come along and say oh no we're actually going to release it and not treat it.
Ohioans are gonna LOOOOOVE that...
Jesus Christ 🤦♂️
@Plinz @neoconbill I heard they burned water, and that is why they need so much kool-aid.
Yes. But please explain how energy is released by spending bitcoin? You understand, that bitcoin is mined with electricity, most electricity comes from burning fossils, spending a bitcoin will not re-generate that energy in any way. Are you ragebating, or you seriously dont understand, i cant tell right now.
@Plinz I'm more worried about the disruption to the entire biome around them, the results of them being in the hands of men who have little to no regard for all of humanity, and the ever-increasing danger of complete systemic control by a monied few capable of pressing buttons.
@Plinz hey how was epstein island
@Plinz I still cant believe i fell for your trolling.
@Plinz Physics aside 😂, I genuinely believe AI will help us address and hopefully solve many issues like sea level rise, AMOC slowing/collapse, disease, etc. Humans alone seem pretty ill-equipped or unwilling to coordinate on the scale we actually need.
@Plinz They use more water watering lawns than AI uses running the systems they’re typing complaints into right now.
@Plinz You missed cruical nuance.
Models from 1T param size release heavy water which can be used for nuclear fusion but smaller models release light water which sinks compared to normal water
@AINewsInt @Plinz If you spend bitcoin, for buying electricity to heat your house, then you are not releasing energy “stored in bitcoin” you are just paying someone for burning even more fossil fuels. U guys are wild.
@Plinz what if we run out of data - we will all drown. Luckily categorization begets categorization ad infinitum, so I think we are safe.
@Plinz I think I missed the joke.