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Training a Human Takes 20 Years of Food

17 points by Aldipower

by robbbed

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I get the feeling that this guy has never been punched in the mouth. Otherwise he might be more careful with what he says.

by mitthrowaway2

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Yes it does. It's kind of a fixed cost though, since we're going to feed and educate our youth anyway, unless Sam Altman would have those people to starve to death.

by lisp2240

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Has there ever been at time when a wealthy person would run their mouth like this without any fear of an angry mob tearing their limbs off their body? Maybe right before the French revolution?

by 7777777phil

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This comparison only works if you assume scaling keeps paying off. Sara Hooker's research shows (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5877662) compact models now outperform massive predecessors and scaling laws only predict pre-training loss, not downstream performance. If marginal returns on compute are falling (https://philippdubach.com/posts/the-most-expensive-assumptio...), "energy per query" hides the real problem, a trillion dollars of infrastructure built on the bet that they won't.

by p0w3n3d

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by TrackerFF

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I asked ChatGPT to do some napkin math, and it seems like on average it would take a human 13.75 million kcal worth of food, in those 20 years.

by zipping1549

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If I were one of his family, I'd advise him to hire someone to stop himself from saying things like this.

by brnt

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by bravetraveler

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by kderbyma

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This what I expect from a mid marketing team.....not a supposed visionary thought leader (/s).....
This is completely fallacious thinking that I assume is meant as a means of manipulating people who dont think deeply about the implications and procession of ideas that leads such obviously disingenuous intelluctual dishonesty....
Waste heat....is not the same as a biologically closed loop which microbes, bacyerium, myceliums, and plants and aninals all work in a concerted effort....
My Food becomes fertilizer....His waste becomes nothing of utility (unless they have amazing efficiencies that defy what we know about physics...)

by la64710

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Oh so sad … 20 years the corporate overlords have to wait for their minions to be ready…
/s