@emmma_camp_ I'm a slow reader and 2-3 books a month would be a lot for me. But through the magic of self-reflection, I am able to not hold myself to other people's reading goals.
@StatisticUrban@LinkofSunshine Maybe it's just that we're really bad at mentally adjusting for inflation. Similar to Hofstadterโs Law: "Inflation makes things seem worse than they are, even when you take into account inflation."
A lot of people have started saying that the "AI uses all the water" meme started with Empire of AI. I think this is definitely wrong, and what actually started it was the Washington Post article from 8 months earlier claiming that each ChatGPT prompt used a whole bottle of water.
This kicked the meme into the stratosphere. There are so many infographics made about AI mentioning that it uses a bottle per prompt, so many thousands of popular videos and images where someone holds a bottle begging people not to use AI. It got so much news coverage.
My claim in my new post (link below) is that I've found extremely strong evidence that this claim was based entirely on napkin math that ignored lots of simple things we knew about the hardware and software running GPT-4, and if you just account for those the cost drops by 50 to 200 times. This shouldn't have ever been allowed to influence the discourse at all, never mind get an infographic made in a major newspaper.
I think the Washington Post should either retract or correct the original article and make it clear that it was based on napkin math, or publish the methodology. The authors have never made it clear how they got the number, and if I'm right it shouldn't have been allowed to ever be the basis for a claim this strong.
@BowieFan2024@StatisticUrban@lukeisamazing If the argument is "accurate CPI would confirm my conclusion that isn't backed by data" then maybe the CPI calculation isn't what's wrong.
@lukeisamazing You canโt just totally ignore any attempts to accurately describe reality because it contradicts your priors.
Wage growth, for example, is up for everyone!
@LinkofSunshine Remember 3 years ago when people were saying we were literally worse off than during the Great Depression? Vibes are a hell of a drug. https://t.co/9ZAbIHSTBu
Okay here's my argument for exactly how I think the "AI uses a bottle of water" statistic looks like it was miscalculated. It's a little in the weeds. Link below
@TrentonWoodcox@hankgreen@gbrl_dick Facebook moved to EdgeRank in 2009. I think Twitter kinda slow-rolled it 2011-2016. Hank would know better than me, but I think YouTube's transition to a very personalized recommendation algo was ~2016 as well, but were doing algorithmic feeds for years before that.