[mjburgess]

One amusing way to put this is that LLMs energy requirements arent self-contained, since they use the energy of the human prompter to both prompt and verify the output.

Reminds me of a similar argument about correctly pricing renewable power: since it isnt always-on (etc.) it requires a variety of alternative systems to augment it which aren't priced in. Ie., converting entirely to renewables isnt possible at the advertised price.

In this sense, we cannot "convert entirely to LLMs" for our tasks, since there's still vast amounts of labour in prompt/verify/use/etc.