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I can do high level thinking for around 6 hours with just two scrambled eggs and a cup of coffee. What I need is something to prevent me from context drift. /s

I can do high level thinking for around 6 hours with just two scrambled eggs and a cup of coffee. What I need is something to prevent me from context drift. /starts googling how many scrambled eggs are equivalent to the energy consumed by a data center. Google how many chickens are in the world.../

Aachen 3mo ago
Consider that you can do this as a working day because someone else is plowing the fields that grow your food, probably burning stored energy in fuels for the process We're sadly not that efficient. The 150kcal/6h=600kcal/day you've mentioned aren't enough, and it takes more than 600kcal to create 600kcal plus transportation into your home Besides, we won't stop existing, so any math about "chatgpt uses X kW and so it's better than hiring another human" doesn't work out. The human doesn't stop burning fuels when not in use: any LLM usage is additional energy that needs to be generated while staying within CO2 budgets
- sharpshift 3mo ago
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- karussell 3mo ago
  > and it takes more than 600kcal to create 600kcal plus transportation into your home This is not a strong argument or at least a different area of discussion. Because you can say exactly the same for the electricity: you need more than the power. You need the coal+transportation, or power plant, or solar panels ... I'm pretty sure humans are much more energy efficient ... for certain tasks ;)
  - Aachen 3mo ago
    Sure, do the math for both, considering also that the human will continue to run anyway and then see who should do the task to minimise worldsuck :P
includenotfound 3mo ago
I find AI helps a lot with my context drift (or attention deficit). I can now simply burst type questions one after another in a large prompt, then have the AI do all the relevant searches / data collections, and spit them out quickly, scratching many itches at once. The problem is then that I get more questions, but AI can handle them faster than I can muster them up or type them. So it's a net win

Aachen 3mo ago

Consider that you can do this as a working day because someone else is plowing the fields that grow your food, probably burning stored energy in fuels for the process We're sadly not that efficient. The 150kcal/6h=600kcal/day you've mentioned aren't enough, and it takes more than 600kcal to create 600kcal plus transportation into your home Besides, we won't stop existing, so any math about "chatgpt uses X kW and so it's better than hiring another human" doesn't work out. The human doesn't stop burning fuels when not in use: any LLM usage is additional energy that needs to be generated while staying within CO2 budgets

sharpshift 3mo ago
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karussell 3mo ago
> and it takes more than 600kcal to create 600kcal plus transportation into your home This is not a strong argument or at least a different area of discussion. Because you can say exactly the same for the electricity: you need more than the power. You need the coal+transportation, or power plant, or solar panels ... I'm pretty sure humans are much more energy efficient ... for certain tasks ;)
- Aachen 3mo ago
  Sure, do the math for both, considering also that the human will continue to run anyway and then see who should do the task to minimise worldsuck :P

includenotfound 3mo ago

I find AI helps a lot with my context drift (or attention deficit). I can now simply burst type questions one after another in a large prompt, then have the AI do all the relevant searches / data collections, and spit them out quickly, scratching many itches at once. The problem is then that I get more questions, but AI can handle them faster than I can muster them up or type them. So it's a net win