The issue is in finding buyers who have enough money to spend on those luxury goods.

Probably makes more sense to kill their dog or something like that. Hint that there’s more where that came from.

Costco does for clearance items.

Stores also don’t prominently advertise everything that’s cheap. Sometimes, you go in and see that detergent is cheaper than usual, and even if you aren’t low on detergent yet (hence not looking up the price), it makes sense to stock up anyway.

I interpreted it as meaning they decide on the specific brand when they’re at the grocery store and are able to compare prices. They’ve already decided beforehand that they needed detergent.

Shouldn’t this save money?

You could say the same about humans working exploitative jobs. You can be unhappy and still stay because the cost of quitting is too high. It’s only when it gets really bad that it becomes worthwhile.

Edit: I just learned from another comment that they sometimes clip the queen’s wings so they can’t leave.

Ethics/civics would only be useful if you saw this as a possible outcome. Most of us are just looking to solve problems and make everyone’s lives easier.

It does rhyme. The e in second and best are assonant.

The nice thing about having an instance dedicated to porn is that you can just block one instance, and that gets you 90% of the way there.

Thanks, I already got a good explanation from NostraDavid.

Thanks for the explanation. That makes sense.

My problem with these definitions is that my personal computer is also my private computer. […]

This is something I’ve wondered about too. Maybe it should only apply to things that would be too expensive for a single person to own? If everyone can have their own, then it’s personal property, even if you can make money from it.

It does taste like a block of earthy butter. It’s absolutely delicious on its own. Even more delicious if cut into thin slices; that somehow intensifies the flavour.

It sounds like you’re just not into that flavour. It’s not for everyone.

That’s me. I am alpha male.

Isn’t private property a necessity for society to function? Even in a communist society where everything is distributed equally, once resources are distributed, those resources become private property.

Or am I misunderstanding the concept of private property?

Your comment tells us the definition of “worth”. It doesn’t tell us why someone is willing to pay that much for it, which is what bag-o-chips is asking about.

You know what else takes far less energy than training a single model? One query. Yet, you argue that it’s the main contributor to the energy consumption. Why is that? It’s because there’s a very high volume of them, thus bringing up the total energy consumption. At the end of the day, it’s this total energy consumption that matters, not the cost of doing it once. Look at the total energy expenditure of training, not just the cost of doing it once.

So, it’s kind of weird t0 single AI energy use out here as some form of exceptional evil.

We’re talking about AI here because that’s the topic of this thread. I’ve never seen anyone say that it’s the only problem worth addressing. Plus, if you want to compare energy usage of ads (or anything else) compared to AI, you would first need to know how much energy AI is actually using.

What do you mean you don’t wait until five different manual interventions are required before you update?

Training is a continuous expenditure. We’re nearly ten years into this craze and we’re still continuously pumping out new models. Whether they’re trained from scratch or not is immaterial. Both processes still consume energy. If you want to justify the claim that training cost is negligible, you would have to show that this cost is actually going down over time and that it’s going down sufficiently quickly.

It doesn’t look like that energy consumption blog post account for the cost of training the model. Otherwise, it should be telling us how many queries/sessions are assumed to be run over the course of the lifetime of a model.

I like to keep to the same routine when possible. Birthdays and holidays interrupt that. No good. I can’t do much for holidays, but since my birthday is supposed to be my day, i can demand this from everyone around me.