Natural resources exist to be utilized. Once again, they provide the necessities and also the comforts that all deserve. If we limit our energy use our ability to extract natural resources will suffer. The resources we can access grow in proportion to the amount of energy we make available. No where is this relationship more direct than in the production of fresh water via desalinization and that alone should be sufficient incentive to utilize more energy. It takes resources and energy to develop more resources and produce more energy, you can't stop it or reverse it, you need to keep moving forward.
Fiat currency by definition is infinite being created by decree.
The rest of the points are increasingly wobbly so I'll leave you with this exchange from the comments on his page:
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Christopher Toth You say that GPT-3 training consumed 700,000 liters of water, as if that is a large amount. With five seconds of research, I found that the global average water footprint for beef is around 15,415 liters of water per kilogram of beef produced, so an average cow costs >4.6 million liters of water. For a single cow. I am disappointed in your inability to contextualize the numbers you use.
Gary Marcus dude the context is that it will be way more for gpt-4, gpt-5 etc, but maybe you were unable to read that far.
Christopher Toth Okay, so can you speculate as to how much more water? Three cows worth? Ten cows worth? A hundred cows worth of water to train GPT-5?
Turns out we kill 900,000 cows every day, so around four trillion liters of water are used for beef production for a single day.
Do you expect GPT-5 to use more than this?
Otherwise why ever would you mention it other than because it looks like a large number to the uninformed?
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How many cows indeed.