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Re:Building SimCity: How to put the world in a machine by KeplerBoy on Monday June 17, 2024 @06:41AM (#40704209)
What about climate/weather models?

Aren't those simulations run on clusters of similar size (or atleast within an order of magnitude) and an agreeably responsible use of computational resources?

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Re:Building SimCity: How to put the world in a machine by toxik on Monday June 17, 2024 @07:15AM (#40704431)
Would the climate model take its own climate impact into account?
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Re:Building SimCity: How to put the world in a machine by adrianN on Monday June 17, 2024 @07:29AM (#40704504)
Climate models probably take global energy use into about, so yes.
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Re:Building SimCity: How to put the world in a machine by chaimgingold on Monday June 17, 2024 @09:08AM (#40705257)
Feels like there should be an xkcd about this. I asked Claude to write one, but it wasn't very funny. Actually, Claude agrees with you that the energy used for training AIs is mere pocket change compared to climate simulations. (Can I trust Claude? Seems far from disinterested.)
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