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Re:The Obscene Energy Demands of A.I by neglesaks on Saturday March 09, 2024 @10:57AM (#39652473)
One cannot take seriously people that use the most extreme outlier event in the history of a technology as a generally representative data point for said technology.
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Re:The Obscene Energy Demands of A.I by lukan on Saturday March 09, 2024 @11:40AM (#39652814)
But you do take people seriously, who make absolutistic statements like "zero environmental impact", that can be disproved so easily?

I am not anti nuclear btw. I just call out BS, when I see BS.

And I just shared what affected me personaly, if you want to know more about potential and actual disasters:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_nuclear_disasters_a...

Multiply that with x, if you increase the number of plants.

And watch out for Murphy:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphy%27s_law

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Re:The Obscene Energy Demands of A.I by cinntaile on Saturday March 09, 2024 @11:05AM (#39652536)
It would be statistically unwise to ignore the actual data points, no? What do you suggest instead?
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Re:The Obscene Energy Demands of A.I by neglesaks on Saturday March 09, 2024 @11:17AM (#39652643)
Not using outliers for general talking points. At all.
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Re:The Obscene Energy Demands of A.I by lukan on Saturday March 09, 2024 @11:46AM (#39652857)
Or maybe not start a debate with using statements that are plain wrong?
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