Just wanted to chime in and say you represented my case perfectly and got all my points (and their separation) 100%!
You're right, I never said we should not care about LLMs because we also "rightfully don't care about meat".
To me the whole AI resource discussion is just a distraction for people who want to rally against a new scary thing, but not look at the real scary thing that they just gotten used to over the years.
In a sense it's the `banality of evil`, or maybe `banality of self destruction`:
The “banality of evil” is the idea that evil does not have the Satan-like, villainous appearance we might typically associate it with. Rather, evil is perpetuated when immoral principles become normalized over time by people who do not think about things from the standpoint of others.
We've gotten so used to using huge amounts of resources in our day to day lives, that we are completely unwilling to stop and reflect about what we could readily change. Instead we fight against the new and shiny, because it tells a better story, distracting us from what really matters.
In a sense we are procrastinating on changing.
It's not the Skynet like AI that is going to be the doom of humankind, but the hot-dogs, taking your car for the commute, and shitty insulation.
You're right, I never said we should not care about LLMs because we also "rightfully don't care about meat".
To me the whole AI resource discussion is just a distraction for people who want to rally against a new scary thing, but not look at the real scary thing that they just gotten used to over the years.
In a sense it's the `banality of evil`, or maybe `banality of self destruction`:
We've gotten so used to using huge amounts of resources in our day to day lives, that we are completely unwilling to stop and reflect about what we could readily change. Instead we fight against the new and shiny, because it tells a better story, distracting us from what really matters.In a sense we are procrastinating on changing.
It's not the Skynet like AI that is going to be the doom of humankind, but the hot-dogs, taking your car for the commute, and shitty insulation.