DeepSeek is the flip side of the same coin: It innovated because of, not in spite of, its constraints. And now that it has upended the assumptions of the dominant AI paradigm, we should reject its costly trade-offs and seek new ways to develop AI without so many harms. 24/
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DeepSeek signals need for efficient AI development investment
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So it doesn’t matter if you're a company in the US, China, or elsewhere. DeepSeek should be a cue to pivot HARD toward investing in far more efficient methods of AI development. Even if you care nothing about community & climate impacts, it’s just better business. 19/
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False Trade-off: Data Centers and AGI’s Unrealistic Environmental Solutions
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Wait a minute. You mean to say that we don’t need to blanket the earth with data centers and coal & gas plants to maybe arrive at a future where we can wave a magical AGI wand to make all of the consequences of that go away? Yes. This is a false trade off. Let that sink in. 16/
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Silicon Valley’s Control Over Critical Energy and Water Infrastructure
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OpenAI’s AGI Argument: Short-term Trade-offs for Long-term Solutions
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OpenAI & co have come up with a funny argument for why to accept these externalities: Yes unfortunately there are trade-offs in the short term, they say, but they're necessary to reach so-called AGI; AGI will then help us solve all these problems! So trade offs = worth it. 11/
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Tech Giants’ Emissions Surge Due to AI Energy Demands and Fossil Fuels
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Massive data centers require extraordinary resource consumption externalities
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The problem is there are myriad huge negative externalities of taking this approach – not least of which is that you need to keep building massive data centers, which require the consumption of extraordinary amounts of resources. 6/
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AdWiseOnline Campaign Empowers Youth Against Digital Manipulation
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