Culture is fractal. The same patterns show up all over the place.
Was just reading someone saying “I have no problem with *local* LLMs. My immediate thought is that they don’t exist without the vast waste of big cloud-based LLMs.
Same thing with modern renewables. They don’t exist without the vast waste of fossil-fuelled infrastructure.
We may think this is not a problem but it really really is
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Jonathan Schofield
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