Sam Altman would like remind you that humans use a lot of energy, too (techcrunch.com)

Human beings are nothing but their economic output to Sam Altman.

“….and I’m going to give you the ability to come in on the ground floor. For the meagre investment of $500bn you can own part of my new startup to harvest that energy.”

> “But it also takes a lot of energy to train a human,” Altman said. “It takes like 20 years of life and all of the food you eat during that time before you get smart. And not only that, it took the very widespread evolution of the 100 billion people that have ever lived and learned not to get eaten by predators and learned how to figure out science and whatever, to produce you.”

This is peak Silicon Valley content.

When can I expect the LLM to move out or pay rent? Still waiting. Also, Sam... we need Ja Rule's opinion.

This argument is obviously incredibly stupid and in bad faith. What is sad is that some tech bros will probably believe in this shit.

We use that energy no matter what we do.

Humans are not born for productivity reasons (we are not "creating" humans to produce things).

GenAI doesn't cause fewer humans to be born.

If you want humans to use less energy and water, stop building GenAI.

Sam Altman can go stumble upon a Lego.

"Analysis: When resource consumers voluntarily reclassify themselves as overhead, observation is more than sufficient." :D https://x.com/OptimizeForZero/status/2025649181252304914?s=2...

Related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47112633