Re:We read the paper that forced Timnit Gebru out of Google
by Baetylraig7 on Saturday December 05, 2020 @05:39AM
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How exactly is the environmental impact of tech becoming more "direct and mainstream" [citation needed]?
Data centers around the world account only for a tiny fraction of electricity consumption or carbon emissions. Do you even account for the reduced car and air travel due to remote working and online shopping?
How are advanced few-shot learners like GPT-3 even remotely a problem, training less models is somehow worse? Do they even know what they are taking about?
Its all very confusing, but a lot of the work done by grievance studies becomes immediately easier to understand once you realize they are arguing in bad faith.
Data centers around the world account only for a tiny fraction of electricity consumption or carbon emissions. Do you even account for the reduced car and air travel due to remote working and online shopping?
How are advanced few-shot learners like GPT-3 even remotely a problem, training less models is somehow worse? Do they even know what they are taking about?
Its all very confusing, but a lot of the work done by grievance studies becomes immediately easier to understand once you realize they are arguing in bad faith.