alt Hacker NewsOh, there's a non sequitir in the parent comment that gives away some kind of leaky context situation, and the commenter is just replying with the same very generic "please elaborate" that we all throw at a language model from time to time. Not because anyone cares what the random text generator has to say, just because it's funny to light a few thousand tokens on fire.
I dont see that. To me it reads like a genuine question to an actually underspecified part of how much embedded carbon emissions ram entails. I read the question at the time and found it reasonable and genuine, and I see no strong reason to suspect that any of the commenters there is an LLM.