Comment on OpenAI CEO Altman: future AI depends on energy breakthrough
megopie@beehaw.org 10 months ago
Huh, wasn’t this what they also said about why it was ok for bitcoin to be using as much power as Bulgaria?
Honestly these hype bait things seem increasingly just excuses to build out more centralized computing capability.
The whole point of mining/staking/whatever is to be expensive. Governments can pigouvian tax it to high hell, mine workers can unionize, and it won’t make any difference to users whatsoever. So there’s literally no benefit to more energy use.
Bitcoin mines can’t do general computing. They use ASICs that can only mine.
sculd@beehaw.org 10 months ago
Very on brand for Altman.