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by wespiser_2018 1843 days ago
No, it's not "tricky" to argue which computing is inherently "valuable" or "not valuable" when the examples are research that will benefit for all mankind, and PoW is so incredibly wasteful for the benefit enriching so few. Even those NN are no where near as wasteful for the benefit of having pre-trained weights anyone can use and build on forever.

We need to stop thinking that tech inherently neutral and without moral or ethical implications when there are clear benefactors and externalities.