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joshred | 2 months ago

Paying $30-$70/day to commute is economical?

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zmmmmm|2 months ago

if you calculate depreciation and running costs on a new car in most places - I think it probably would be.

adrianN|2 months ago

If Uber were cheaper than the depreciation and running costs of a car, what would be left for the driver (and Uber)?

ignoramous|2 months ago

> Paying $30-$70/day to commute is economical?

When LLM use approaches this number, running one locally would be, yes. What you and other commentator seem to miss is, "Uber" is a stand-in for Cloud-based LLMs: Someone else builds and owns those servers, runs the LLMs, pays the electricity bills... while its users find it "economical" to rent it.

(btw, taxis are considered economical in parts of the world where owning cars is a luxury)