They say it's a waste that you pay for the tokens and then the inference provider pays for the electricity. Isn't that how everything works? I pay cucumbers and the farmers have to pay for the water and the fertilizer...

I hope that reasoning is an after-the-fact justification by the LLM that wrote this.

It's a ver interesting idea and I wouldn't mind trying it out, but with a smaller model. At 0.5t/s and reading many gigabytes from the SDD every second... I wonder if this wouldn't be extremely practical if targeting a 500gib or 250gib model, something that is still outside most consumers' laptop.