> using it all day (say 8h) costs between 0.7 and about 14 kg of CO2 in the US,
How do you get to this range? That's quite a spread.
When I last ran the math, my daily usage (efficient and effective productivity, not spamming Gas Town) came to about 0.67 kg of CO2, which is roughly equivalent to my individual emissions from the 1 mile public bus ride home from work.
The difference is so big because renewables are just that much more efficient than coal and, to a lesser extent, natural gas. You can have 60% coming from renewable sources and still emit 400g/kWh with a coal and gas mix, whereas all hydro is 24g/kWh according to that source. The production component is what makes renewables not completely emission-free
I'm curious how you got the energy consumption for 8 hours of use.
I would imagine there's a huge spread there too. Depending on hardware, size of the model, requests being batched and queued rather than occupying a whole GPU or TPU, or if you are running an agent loop for 8 hours straight or spend most of the time reviewing results.
The problem with billionaires is they have a vastly disproportionate voice in the political system, which leads to ineffective politicians and policies not aligned with a thriving society.
eg: cutting funding to the IRS and advanced science, both of which have long proven positive dividends… or advancing new wars abroad to directly blow up money.
Plus wbillionaires are nothing special. Right time, right place.
Steve Jobs is a perfect example of someone who was in it for the love of the game. He wouldn’t have been any different if his income was taxed at 90%.
Yeah, and those people will be forced to liquidate their holdings (aka sell their houses in a market where most of the houses are for sale) to pay their share of the “wealth tax 2.0” after the “Billionaires” version fails to bring in enough money to pay for all the things promised.
That’s so conspiratorial. They could just stream with a slightly delay to interrupt the feed on disaster. I think it’s way more likely they just didn’t have a good broadcasting team.
the code has not been rigorously tested in all honesty, (this is mainly an experiment on agent orchestration as opposed to building a viable sqlite in rust)
- The choice of two workers per model is purely pragmatic: I can't afford more.
- I chose heterogeneous agents because it has not been done yet. There is no performance justification for this choice.
Money follows ROI. Making those speculative or detrimental industries less profitable is the answer.
Regulations on micro-targeting, data privacy, algorithm transparency, legal liability for content, etc.. all push back against the externalities of ads/social media.
Regulations on energy and land use can make eg data center build outs more expensive, pressuring back against speculative AI trash.
Taxing big tech companies, subsidizing manufacturing education, and judicious import tariffs.. would all create incentives for investing money and labor in hard capabilities
