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Re:General principles for the use of AI at CERN by tempfile on Monday November 24, 2025 @09:21AM (#46034412)
How did that turn into "not great, not terrible"? That's still 300,000 homes that could otherwise be powered. It's an enormous amount of electricity!
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Re:General principles for the use of AI at CERN by ceejayoz on Monday November 24, 2025 @09:47AM (#46034712)
And all we get out of CERN is… the entire modern economy.

Their ledgers are balanced just fine for a while.

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Re:General principles for the use of AI at CERN by tempfile on Tuesday November 25, 2025 @03:26AM (#46043612)
This is a very silly argument. The energy expended should be justified on its own (scientific!) merits. The fact the web happened to be invented at CERN has almost nothing to do with the fact that they burn through terajoules of electricity every year.
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Re:General principles for the use of AI at CERN by ceejayoz on Tuesday November 25, 2025 @10:27AM (#46046671)
> The energy expended should be justified on its own (scientific!) merits.

Is the scientific merit of such a thing always immediately apparent?

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Re:General principles for the use of AI at CERN by hengheng on Tuesday November 25, 2025 @12:00PM (#46047881)
In your opinion, what would instead justify the total cost of devoting 10'000 people's lives to basic research?
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