[rvz]

I haven't seen any example of such a trend which is why this is a very extreme position if not an irrational position to take.

> I’m aware of efforts to build proof-of-stake models. I’ll care once the total energy consumption of all cryptocurrencies drops to a non-bullshit level.

> I will summarily close issues related to Bitcoin or cryptocurrency in any way.

Have we seen any creator of a deep learning library, take a similar position if not stopping any support for anyone using it for mass surveillance or burning up the planet by using their deep learning library to train it on tons of GPUs in the cloud until the data centres catch fire? I don't think so.

It's business as usual for them as the author is getting upset over PoW systems to taint all of them under the same brush despite many alternatives that are more energy efficient than others.

[kaibee]

> Have we seen any creator of a deep learning library, take a similar position if not stopping any support for anyone using it for mass surveillance or burning up the planet by using their deep learning library to train it on tons of GPUs in the cloud until the data centres catch fire? I don't think so.

I believe the original creator of YOLO actually quit for that reason.

[grnmamba]

> Have we seen any creator of a deep learning library, take a similar position if not stopping any support for anyone using it for mass surveillance?

ml5.js license:

> This license gives everyone as much permission to work with this software as possible as long as they comply with the ml5.js Code of Conduct [...]

ml5.js code of conduct:

> Do not: [...] Use ml5.js to build tools of mass surveillance and prediction to repress the rights of people

https://github.com/ml5js/ml5-library/blob/main/LICENSE.md

Not sure how enforcable this is but it exists.