Glyph on Nostr: I think that the idea of out-of-control energy use is pretty wildly overblown by ...

I think that the idea of out-of-control energy use is pretty wildly overblown by critics at this point. The numbers are hard to find but crypto is worse on the merits by orders of magnitude no matter how you slice it, and even if that is wrong and somehow LLMs are using thousands of times more energy than most estimates put them, as simon points out the similarities are not structural https://mastodon.social/@glyph/112137441750732247