wrangle enjoyer ⏹️ ⏸️
5K posts
A few people asked me to make an image of how much irrigated farmland would use the same water required for ALL ChatGPT usage, including every part of the process. I did a botec and my best guess right now is that inference uses about as much water as training, and power generation uses ~5x as much water as the data centers themselves, so it looks something like this. The water cost of manufacturing chips is marginal compared to how much water they use over their lifetimes.
I like the "agriculture uses way more water than ai" argument because it implies that asking grok to put someone in a bikini is just as important as literally eating food
the AI bubble might genuinely pop soon with sora shutting down. holy fuck this is what i have been waiting for
@xereeto @lynettepillled @ChadNotChud mostly agreed, but I'd like to add that AI *is* hitting a wall
You can now enable Claude to use your computer to complete tasks. It opens your apps, navigates your browser, fills in spreadsheets—anything you'd do sitting at your desk. Research preview in Claude Cowork and Claude Code, macOS only.
Reinforcing negative neural pathways via therapy or introspection is a recipe for misery. Don’t cut a rut in the road.
why don’t we have famous physicists anymore?
