[calvinmorrison]

whats the lifetime environmental impact of hiring one decent human being who is capable enough assist with work. Well a lot, you gotta do 25 years with 30 kids to get one useful person.

You get to upgrade them, kill them off, have them on demand

[simonw]

I saw a fun comparison a while back (which I now cannot find) of the amount of CO2 it takes to train a leading LLM compared to the amount of CO2 it takes to fly every attendee of the NeurIPS AI conference (13,000+ people) to and from the event.

[danielbln]

Well don't let us hanging.

[simonw]

"(which I now cannot find)"