> But seeing the HW situation, energy burn, scammers, infra hijacking, etc. there are so many negatives I'm more and more in favour of making it illegal.
Machine learning has literally all of these downsides. Would you be in favor of making that technology illegal as well? What other technology and innovation should we ban because your benighted insights have determined they are too bad to continue?
Before you object, a powerful ML model could be more valuable than several mining fees that could be generated by this kind of "hacking." And, sure, infrastructure hacking seems like less of an issue, since no one seems to give away free GPU time, but crypto has that constraint as well.
I'd be curious to hear the justification for this neo-Luddite stance and whether it applies to other tech like ML.
EDIT: initial conclusion was too judgmental/not inquisitive enough.
EDIT 2: If you downvote me, then please do me the courtesy of telling me where I'm wrong. How is crypto mining different from ML training and inference with current model sizes?
Machine learning has literally all of these downsides. Would you be in favor of making that technology illegal as well? What other technology and innovation should we ban because your benighted insights have determined they are too bad to continue?
Before you object, a powerful ML model could be more valuable than several mining fees that could be generated by this kind of "hacking." And, sure, infrastructure hacking seems like less of an issue, since no one seems to give away free GPU time, but crypto has that constraint as well.
I'd be curious to hear the justification for this neo-Luddite stance and whether it applies to other tech like ML.
EDIT: initial conclusion was too judgmental/not inquisitive enough.
EDIT 2: If you downvote me, then please do me the courtesy of telling me where I'm wrong. How is crypto mining different from ML training and inference with current model sizes?