Re:LLMs Are Cheap
by timschmidt on Monday June 09, 2025 @02:50PM
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I love it! Can't forget the accumulated carbon costs of all the experimentation it took to master fire, ceramics, and metals smelting.
If you would like to someone add that somehow as a line item, perhaps you should add the full embodied energy cost of Linux (please include the entire history of compute since it wouldn't exist without UNIX), or perhaps the full military industrial complex costs from the invention of the transistor? We could go further.