@azeem This is good news, though many people will doubt the source! What are other sources to people follow on this topic of AI/LLMs' environmental impact?
@thiaru @SemAntiKast @IsabellWelpe I work with our Entrepreneurship programs at our University, helping coach people in finding relevant information sources that relate to their venture. Entrepreneurs have to synthesize info. from many sources that are new to them.
@motolibrarian In both cases, convincing the general public to change behavior at the scale needed to greatly shift the systems is a gargantuan feat. #DHReads21
@motolibrarian Systems are designed to extract the resource from some non-oil state, and then gradually a whole host of ways to use that resource are developed. And once you have a whole lot of interlocking systems that benefit from the resource's usage, then it's reallllly difficult to change.
@clboyles @crystalchokshi @arungapatchka@JulianChambliss @FoodandArchives @motolibrarian @kanarinka @laurenfklein @PennPriceLab Not to detract from agile methodology (well maybe a little), but it does make me think of big literal Blocks of time devoted by several people. It also makes me think of the system of people coordinating and interacting with each other. #DHReads21
@arungapatchka@clboyles@JulianChambliss @FoodandArchives @crystalchokshi @motolibrarian @kanarinka @laurenfklein @PennPriceLab Apologies for business speak! It might also be going quieter, slower, as needed, and being able to still be responsive when conditions change. #DHReads21
@clboyles@JulianChambliss @FoodandArchives @arungapatchka @crystalchokshi @motolibrarian @kanarinka @laurenfklein @PennPriceLab This in turn makes me think of "Emergent Strategies" by adrienne maree brown, and the focus in that book of the need for social organizations to be able to keep the momentum, and nimbly reorganize, w/o assumed cash flow. Resilience (and hard to achieve). #DHreads21
@clboyles@JulianChambliss @FoodandArchives @arungapatchka @crystalchokshi @motolibrarian @kanarinka @laurenfklein @PennPriceLab Not my expertise, buuuut University Presses for instance have a business model that uses money in part to pay for systems (people) to coordinate reviewers and ensure quality of content. It's possible to do that w/o $ flow, but you need to develop a new business model. #DHreads21
@clboyles@JulianChambliss @FoodandArchives @arungapatchka @crystalchokshi @motolibrarian @kanarinka @laurenfklein @PennPriceLab One issue is the presence and quality of review, though that's not unique to OA. #DHreads21
@motolibrarian @FoodandArchives A tanget, perhaps, but one problematic extension of this issue is creating a "normal" distribution then based on that biased sample. #DHreads21
I read the first chapter not that we shouldn't have data (birth statistics would be useful!) but that left to default patterns, we replicate existing power and domination dynamics. #DHReads21
@FoodandArchives Right, and then you're introduced to some of the more shocking datapoints, like the fact that birth data isn't tracked well at all, once you're already invested. #DHReads21
Q2 Williams' story itself is so touching and evocative. It really grabs ahold of the attention, and then the authors lead you to broader implications. This chapter, and many in the book, are really well constructed, I think. #DHReads21