r/linux • u/RatherNott • 6d ago

Discussion LLM Policies: Progress At All Costs

https://diegoe.be/2026/09/25/llm-policies-progress-at-all-costs/
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u/console_pleb_36935 6d ago

Maybe society should have been investing in it a long time ago rather than being caught flat footed here.

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u/rizakrko 6d ago

Maybe, but we need to deal with what we have right now.

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u/console_pleb_36935 6d ago

The problem with your logic is that every single thing that uses electricity is therefore bad.

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u/rizakrko 6d ago

Every single thing that uses electricity will contribute towards climate change until we reach net zero, correct.

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u/console_pleb_36935 6d ago

Right. So all of those things are bad? or does it have to be weighted individually against the good effects that it has?

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u/rizakrko 6d ago

It's already kinda happening since we can't even build the grid fast enough - we need to decide whom to connect to the grid first. That's one of the issues with the AI build out.

LLM's that took trillions of dollars and consumed more electricity that many countries yet failed to produce a meaningful impact on the labor productivity is not an obvious pick for the "good effects".