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Re:Will We Run Out of Data? Limits of LLM Scaling Based on H... by monero-xmr on Tuesday June 18, 2024 @02:54AM (#40714809)
If someone is willing to pay, who cares? Energy has a price. Focus on regulating how energy is generated, and when prices climb the market will solve the problem.

If instead you focus on using the government to outlaw demand, only failure will follow. I mean, didn't the government outlawing the demand for illegal drugs fail miserably? I believe drugs are cheaper, more potent, and more available than ever.

Similarly, if there is demand for compute, then compute will occur. There is always a clearing price commiserate with the risk.

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Re:Will We Run Out of Data? Limits of LLM Scaling Based on H... by amanaplanacanal on Tuesday June 18, 2024 @05:39AM (#40715727)
A carbon tax would be the most free market way to do it: tax fossil carbon as it comes out of the ground. The market can handle the rest. Can’t seem to make that happen politically, though.
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Re:Will We Run Out of Data? Limits of LLM Scaling Based on H... by DrNosferatu on Tuesday June 18, 2024 @09:07AM (#40717387)
Careful with carbon tax plans, they can be regressive:

https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/energy/what-carbon-tax-can-do...

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