[taminka]

absolutely nobody wants or needs a fucking thermostat diary lmao, and the few ppl that do will have zero noticeable impact on world's compute demands, i'm begging ppl in on hn to touch grass or speak to an average person every now and then lol

[pessimizer]

You wouldn't even know that it existed, or how it worked. It would just work. Everybody wants hands off control that they don't have to think or learn about.

edit: this reminds me of a state agency I once worked for who fired their only IT guy after they moved offices, because the servers were running just fine without him. It was a Kafkaesque trauma for him for a moment, but a massive raise a week later when they were renegotiating for him to come back.

[arscan]

its pretty easy to dispute and dismiss a single use case for indiscriminate/excessive use of inference to achieve some goal, as you have done here, but its hard to dispute every possible use case