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Elon Musk's xAI plans to build 'Gigafactory of Compute' by fall 2025 — using 100,000 Nvidia's H100 GPUs (www.tomshardware.com)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I use NFTs for a variety of productive purposes. You may not, and that's fine, but that's just you. You can't dismiss anything that you personally don't have a use for as "wasteful."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I wasn't. I pointed out that no significant blockchains used GPUs (especially not Ethereum, the main NFT-supporting blockchain, which has transitioned to proof-of-stake instead of proof-of-work). That puts them outside the question of "wastefulness" altogether, and irrelevant to the subject at hand.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

"it's not wasteful because now they're only wasting less resources"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I have no idea what point you're trying to make here. The comment I responded to said:

We really need to tax energy used by GPU-burning projects differently. AI training, blockchain, whatever. Such a wasteful endeavour.

And I pointed out that blockchain doesn't use GPUs any more. NFTs weren't even mentioned specifically. Then the thread went further into discussing AI specifically, not even blockchain at that point, and you jumped in to say "people still use nfts". It was almost a non-sequitur.

I'm not saying anything about NFTs. You don't need to jump in and "defend" them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

nfts are wasteful
your justification for ai not being a wasteful use of resources is that you personally use them
people still use nfts

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

But NFTs aren't wasteful. They're run on a proof-of-stake blockchain, no big computing power is used to back them. Your point about NFTs is false, I didn't mention NFTs in the first place, I don't see the relevance of any of this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

But NFTs aren't wasteful.

i feel this take is a pretty good justification not to care about your opinion on things

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What exactly are they "wasting?" Ethereum switched to proof-of-stake on 15 September 2022. If you are still criticizing NFTs for their environmental impact you're a year and a half out of date.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

"it's not wasteful because now they're only wasting less resources"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You didn't answer the question. What exactly are they wasting? And what does this have to do with AI at this point, anyway? You jumped in with this NFT thing and I still fail to see the relevance.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

oh no their ai is broken they're stuck in a loop