That would be destruction of evidence, we just had a whole discussion about this recently where it was established that this is the legal reality. Please please please look up how it works before saying anything at all, please.

You're an idiot all day, kiddo. I've spent plenty of time here doing that already, and if you knew how to Internet you could find it.

No. That's fundamentally wrong. It is based both on distillations from that training data and random numbers, and the training data is NEVER used directly by the LLM, only to build the model. You are confused about how any of this works.

Gemini disagrees with you.

I didn't say or imply counterproductive. What I implied was uselessness.

There are multiple reasons (several of them related to decisions by the ultra-wealthy) but I think the best one is that most people's emissions aren't very high. You could remove the bottom 50% of the population as measured by income off of the map entirely and not make things much better.

Another reason is that most of what we do could be much lower-emissions if we used strategies we already know how to implement. Take agriculture for example where zero tilth agriculture dramatically increases yields and reduces emissions. This would require more human labor, but there's a lot of that available. The problem with shifting that direction is directly with the ultra-wealthy deciding we won't do it, so that they can buy more yachts. They absolutely depend on our agricultural systems minimizing labor. People don't want farm jobs because they are shitty, but they don't have to be today, that's entirely related to the profit motive where you hire the fewest people possible.

TL;DR: Eat the rich, and the emissions problems of eating can also be solved. Fail to do so and they cannot.

What? I've never done that.

Yeah, and then they killed the ultra low cost laptop market completely because everyone discovered that they were inadequate at the time and then became COMPLETELY inadequate (as in, good for almost nothing) immediately thereafter. Most of them were single core, the good ones were dual core but didn't have enough RAM to hold up.

Now there's a low cost laptop market again but the cost of entry is double what it used to be, or at least 1.5 times with inflation. This is a little more realistic. But that's just not enough RAM for Windows. It would be OK for Linux. My Linux laptop is an HP and everything works so there's hope I guess, but I'd wait for someone else to find out.

We could arguably do both things at once, and should... but won't do one of them at all.

I should take up a collection to sue this guy for libel, so we can unmask these trolls through discovery.

Apple took an OS which had no trouble fitting onto machines whose memory was measured in low double digit MB, ruined the UI, and turned it into something that needs 8GB+.

This is still better than Windows, where Microsoft took an OS which would not run well with any amount of resources, and made it run even worse with any amount of resources. (It has run fairly well at certain times... in the past.)

But both are a far cry from Linux, where you can still boot up and do useful work with 4GB or so, even with a modern kernel. You might need to use a less featureful WM/desktop, but you can actually do that.

Are you seriously saying you don't see any need for consumer protection laws regarding AI services, or is this some kind of confused face trolling like a virtual Tucker Carlson?

I wanted a CMS with caching among its features, so I just downloaded and installed one. It saved me a lot of time on the rest of the site functionality that I did want, so it actually took a lot less time and money than doing it myself, and I got caching and authentication for free.

What I find myself asking is how you access Slashdot without also having access to a search engine you could use to find out that there's multiple platforms available that will do this for you.

My very outdated 2C4T AMD laptop running Linux with 8GB outperforms the Windows laptop with 16 at just not choking. I forget what processor is in my laptop, the work Windows one has i7-1185G7.

There's a work laptop and a personal laptop involved, stupid maggot.

There's no way a by-choice reproductive crisis is the Fermi answer. Once society contracted far enough you'd get back to a place where they could get the women subjugated and keep them that way.