It’s not clear from the article, but do these statistics taken into account the amount of electricity and water required to train the model in addition to inference?

For example, the article says their daily average use of Claude code is similar to the dishwasher running. Is that just including inference or also training Opus 4.5?

Wouldn’t print newspapers also show you disaster on one page and sports on the next?

I just began reading amusing ourselves to death.

> Television, he notes, has introduced the phrase "now this", which implies a complete absence of connection between the separate topics the phrase ostensibly connects.

This idea is why I always take media with a grain of salt. The decontexualization makes it easy for people to be reactive towards something, that isn’t logical

Eg “now this is why <insert person or group> is good/evil”

People call me the devils advocate when I point out these nuances but I just think we need to be much more critical when forming and holding opinions.