Exactly. Talking. Violence isn’t going to make more leftists.

That said, call me paranoid but I think three-letter organizations are the main obstacle to organizing. I don’t know what to do about that.

I don’t have a source for that, but the most that any locally-run program can cost in terms of power is basically the sum of a few things: maxed-out gpu usage, maxed-out cpu usage, maxed-out disk access. GPU is by far the most power-consuming of these things, and modern video games make essentially the most possible use of the GPU that they can get away with.

Running an LLM locally can at most max out usage of the GPU, putting it in the same ballpark as a video game. Typical usage of an LLM is to run it for a few seconds and then submit another query, so it’s not running 100% of the time during typical usage, unlike a video game (where it remains open and active the whole time, GPU usage dips only when you’re in a menu for instance.)

Data centers drain lots of power by running a very large number of machines at the same time.

agreed – how do we make more leftists though?

Running an llm llocally takes less power than playing a video game.

There aren’t enough leftists to win with violence, so our only hope is to win with dialogue. What’s your plan?

Metaculus also says 7%.

Fortunately, there’s no way something so unlikely as 7% could realistically happen. The odds would be a thousand to one.