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LMAO would love to see that math

(which of course would need to account for the cost to the end user of constant rug-pulling, enshitification, github struggling to maintain one 9 of availability, privacy invasion, rampant mental health issues and political division from profit-based social media, etc)

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I pay $100/month for Claude Max and it's like having a (nearly) free, very competent employee. Value _way_ exceeds $100/months. But there's a datacenter that has to run that.

You are a fringe minority compared to all of the other "customers" suffering the side effects outlined above that nobody signed up for.

The retort is to the statement that the U.S. war in Iran is "pretty cheap compared to all the AI datacenters".

People are conflating destructive and productive activities. These are fundamentally different.

Again, people like you are a tiny subset of all data center "users"

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