• PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca
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    3 hours ago

    Use a diamond doesn’t “use up” that diamond.

    And yet, it’s still unethical to buy already mined blood diamonds from people who continue to mine more blood diamonds. Funny thing about that, huh

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      39 minutes ago

      A very large amount of those dug up diamonds end up as “industrial diamonds.” Because they are far from gemstone quality. And they definitely get used up. I have used up my share of them as cutting tools when I was a toolmaker.

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      2 hours ago

      In this analogy, using the diamond does use it up. In the sense that none else can use that diamond concurrently. If someone else wants a diamond, more children must die.

      This is different from the trained AI model, which can concurrently be used by everyone at the same time, at very little extra cost.