Do you think hammers grow out of the ground? Or that the magically spawn the building materials to work on?
Everything we do has a cost. We should definitely strive for efficiency and responsibile use of resources. But to use this as an excuse, while you read this in a device made of metals mined by children, is pretty hypocritical.
No consumption is ehical under capitalism, take responsibility instead for what you do with that consumption.
Tja@programming.dev 4 hours ago
Neither does an algorithm.
kadaverin0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 hours ago
No, it actually does.
news.mit.edu/…/explained-generative-ai-environmen…
Tja@programming.dev 4 hours ago
The algorithm is a bunch of math. It’s not until someone wants to run it that it needs any energy.
kadaverin0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 45 minutes ago
No shit, chumly. How many times a second do you think that math is “run”?