What would Altman gain from overstating the environmental impact of his own company?
You should consider the possibility that CEOs of big companies essentially always think very hard about how to talk about everything so that it always benefits them
I can see the benefits, I can try to explain if you’re actually interested
You seem to spend a lot of energy questioning people’s intentions, inventing reasons to question whether people’s intentions toward you are genuine. Some do deserve to be questioned, no doubt. It just seems draining, and for what goal?
Do you aim to be the sole determiner of truth? To never be duped again? To sharpen your skills as an investigator?
How much more creative energy could you put into the world by taking people at their word in all but the highest risk cases?
Do you hold Sam Altman’s opinion higher than the reasoning here? In general or just on this particular take?
What would Altman gain from overstating the environmental impact of his own company?
What if power consumption is not so much limited by the software’s appetite, but rather by the hardware’s capabilities?
You should consider the possibility that CEOs of big companies essentially always think very hard about how to talk about everything so that it always benefits them
I can see the benefits, I can try to explain if you’re actually interested
What weighs more: the cost of taking people at their word, or the effort it takes to interpret the subtext of every interaction?
I don’t understand the nature of your question
You seem to spend a lot of energy questioning people’s intentions, inventing reasons to question whether people’s intentions toward you are genuine. Some do deserve to be questioned, no doubt. It just seems draining, and for what goal?
Do you aim to be the sole determiner of truth? To never be duped again? To sharpen your skills as an investigator?
How much more creative energy could you put into the world by taking people at their word in all but the highest risk cases?
Stoic desire to be informed and to be a force of good for others with like intentions