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by Osmium 747 days ago
What would regulation look like if it was based on energy usage rather than capabilities?

A guardrail on mass deployment that is not linked to specific model size or aspects of model performance that are difficult to quantify.

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Energy usage of training or inference?

As a guard on capabilities, it would permit a rise in abilities with gains in both hardware and software efficiency. Is this desirable?

Overall energy usage, from the perspective that energy usage is the primary immediate harm of AI. This is a thesis, not an opinion.