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Comment by atomic128

Don't fight this. Try to profit from it. People love these tools and they will become utterly, utterly dependent.

Using a spell-checker, I have gradually lost my ability to spell. Using these LLM tools, large parts of the population will lose the ability to think. Try to own them like farm animals.

The large number of tokens being processed by iterative models requires enormous energy. Look at the power draw of a Hopper or Blackwell GPU. The Cerebras wafer burns 23 KW.

One avenue to profit is to invest in nuclear power by owning uranium. This is risky and I do not recommend it to others. See discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41661768

parent atomic128 2 years ago

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