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So we shouldn't find ways to reduce emissions unless the R&D itself has zero emissions?

Just looking up online, it seems 64% of the energy in Google datacenters is from clean sources, which is actually much better than I expected. Source: https://sustainability.google/progress/energy/

Should we not train GPT until Microsoft's data centers are all with zero emissions?

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It's just the usual issue with any climate change mitigation work that doesn't involve smugly telling people how to live, the solution needs to be perfect and anything less than that is just greenwashing.

Should we not train GPT until Microsoft's data centers are all with zero emissions?

Yes.That is honestly what we should do. We are absolutely fucking this planet over and every other living creature is being pushed into major suffering. So yes we should have everything running on zero emissions, renewables / nuclear, yes.

Awesome! Let's stop everything - research, electricity, etc, until we find a way to run everything with zero emissions.

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