this was a thought experiment but may you live long enough to see an unironic “offloading my cognition to the datacenter is environmentalist praxis” takes

this is napkin math with some searching. real world may differ

language centers only: ~0.000054 g co2e / token
whole brain(20w total overhead): ~0.000540 g co2e / token

gemma 4 on efficient npu: (0.20 joules/token) = ~0.000024 g co2e / token

this assumes you have the median diet. i am lazy and not doing this for vegans (they would be more efficient)

energy: brain language processing only (2w/8.8 tps) = 0.227 j/tok. npu (5w/25 tps) = 0.20 j/tok.
carbon: food (0.000239 g/j) x 0.227 = 0.000054 g co2/tok.
grid: npu needs >0.00027 g/j
(0.000054 / 0.20) or >972 g co2/kwh to be dirtier. only lignite (~1100) hits that

if we want to invoke the wrath of cursed units (g co2e / token) it’s possible that it would take an energy grid powered exclusively by lignite coal to make a datacenter running gemma 4 on npu’s less carbon efficient than human cognition

final boss of normative determinism

for the record x2 i am super bad with phrasing. i always use terms like they. them. other people! i am almost never excluded in these kinds of posts. i am a midwit, and if you find modal in a dictionary, it doxxes me. i tried to correct it in the last line of this post but it isn’t good enough

i try to find explanations. there are many that support my argument! motivated reasoning, bike shed effect, construal level theory…

but it doesn’t feel right. like there’s something i haven’t came across yet in psychology. it feels like one contiguous thing, not a patchwork, when i fail this way.

for the record and since i’m really bad with tone, i’m not vindictive on this, just confused. i want an explanation for why i feel like applying more cognition to the problem decreases the output quality and i can’t get one right now. it feels like the key i need to understand so many things if true

- people screw up the presidential election but ace random special elections on tuesdays
- people are way more correct about “ai being a problem in the future” before llms start taking off. now they comedically downplay them at every turn. forever fancy unprofitable autocomplete!!!

like, what?

it’s weird how often the average person is wrong about important things comparatively to mundane things. i don’t think it’s possible to empirically prove this right but i have a turbo hunch for the more influential something is the more likely they are to screw it up even when trying harder

Have you considered that my newsletter that relies on the premise of this not ever being a big deal to anyone is extremely profitable?

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of course you can

yeah no shot that happens that fast for them

government program that subsidizes flagship model access for medium and small companies

best defense is going to be to let Mythos loose on your system before someone else does, which seems to me will produce some short-term market dynamics at the starting gun that will probably be fun for the sellers and less fun for the buyers

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my theory for cold war two framing is that it is incredibly easy to forget how much the real cold war sucked especially when someone thinks being alive during the cold war is more of a qualifier than it is because the soviet union still technically existed when they were a kid

not the whole thread. i just wanted to show you that part. because i thought it was funny when i thought about it again