On Tue, Aug 11, 2026 at 10:40:02AM +0200, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: [...]
everyone please read the full mail again. and again. and still
I will quote the most important paragraphs:
> I don't have a concern with the LLM _technology_ as such: it's just maths and
> enough training material, which outputs a very large set of numbers that we
> can use to infer new material from existing material. But I am firmly of the
> camp that says we cannot talk about the LLM technology without talking about
> who is pushing for its usage, who is doing the training and how, what effect
> those have on our limited resources, and what are the economical and
> political
> motives of these.
>
> And so I object to reducing the "ecological" discussion to just a "it's not
> that bad, $duration of LLM agent usage is the same as buying a pair of
> jeans",
> because I think that type of argument is either ill-advised, or in bad faith.
<3 thank you soo much, Didier!
& adding some words to the pad to be turned into another proposal :)
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Holger
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