This fucking guy needs to suck a tailpipe

Sam Altman is an example of a terrible allocation of resources. Think of how much oxygen and dihydrogen monoxide he consumes? And for what? He just needlessly produces carbon dioxide in record amounts. The elementary particles that make up the sack of biotic matter that calls itself Samuel would be better suited for other applications. Agriculture comes to mind.

Altman existing is a terrible waste of resources

Why does this 41 year old man speak the valley girl accent?

Don't fucking talk to me about scare resources, billionaire.

Off with his head!

letting sam altman (or billionaires for that matter) have all the money from our work is a poor allocation of resources.

It's true what he says and not just about RAM but about anything you own.

My car isn't driving most of the time. My drill isn't drilling most of the time and my oven is off most of the time.

That's a huge waste of resources in a macro economic kind of way.

You can't argue with the correctness of his statement. You need other arguments. These arguments exist.

Finally coming out of the bloody closet. Frontier labs and Nvidia are in death dance.

The latter sells mostly to the former, but their growth story needs local inference to keep up with valuation. Nvidia could reduce prices on a whim and boost local inference, but that would make its investment in frontier labs lose too much.

Frontier labs meanwhile need public markets money, and their story really needs local inference to be more expensive/extremely worst than what they offer.

One narrative takes money away from.one side and puts it in the pockets of the other.

But buying up the world's silicon wafers that you don't even have the ability to turn into chips is a much better use of resources, right Sammy?

Please don't run AI for free on your own workstation 😭 it's a very bad use of your computer 😥

Fuck you, Sam.

And who made those resources scarce, Sam? WHO MADE THEM SCARCE???

also screw you for trying to make the answer to 'How should those resources be allocated?' be 'In the way that best enriches me personally'.

STOP LISTENING TO CEOS

you are not getting it, if I have all the ram and I'm just going to charge you the amount I decided for you to be able to perform the most mundane tasks, I can't believe you are not grasping the benefits of this business model

Never felt so proud to have a Local LLM in my router, yes my router of all things... my router which is an old and downgraded Mac Mini I had lying around.

"Raping your own siblings at home is terribly inefficient when we have private islands where we can keep and rape other people's siblings."

Fucking idiot is too stupid to realize that local DRAM can be used for useful shit, as opposed to whatever he wants to use it for.

There is a national park in Kentucky called Blue Heron that has an outdoor museum of a company owned coal town. Residents were paid in scripts that could only be spent at the company store. Once the lands resources were taken, the company moved on and the town died. This is the America the wealthy always wants. https://www.nps.gov/biso/learn/historyculture/blueheron.htm

Yeah no. I will hoard all the computing resources I can. Fuck you Altman.

Fuck this loser piece of shit

we lost Captain Picard yesterday, yet this lazy-eyed cardboard human gets to keep using oxygen. there is no justice in this world.

Oh BROTHER this does this guy suck!

CEO of Pizza Hut says making pizzas at home is a terrible allocation of resources.

Guy selling product: “Here’s why owning your own product instead of renting it from me is a terrible idea”

Guy with the spying infrastructure in place to steal your product when renting his product, says you escaping his ability to spy is waste of resources.

actually it's quite terrible to have everybody, like, have a bunch of the world's limited supply of DRAM sitting in their own computer and being used five percent of the time.

Why is it terrible for us plebeians to have our own RAM, huh?

Like you want maximum utilisation in the cloud if you're trying to deal with this very supply-constrained environment

WHY IS IT SUPPLY-CONSTRAINED, ALTMAN? WHY IS THERE CURRENTLY A RAM SHORTAGE IN THE FIRST PLACE?!?

Nobody wants the fucking cloud and that's why major tech companies are forcing it on them without asking, and burying the opt-out if it's offered at all.

And somehow many people's intuition is the opposite of that

Gee I wonder why our intuitions don't align with your "Give me everything and have nothing" philosophy...

Sam Altman is a terrible utilization of scarce resources.

I want to use ram for things unrelated to AI you fucking prick.

I don't think anyone should, but if Sam gets to then it should be fair game for everyone because fuck him.

Ahh, right, I forgot we barely survived before AI came along and took over our lives and infected the entire internet with AI slop...oh wait, no...turns out that's not true. Before AI we were perfectly fine.

Shovel seller vehemently against you building your own shovel

This IS the same argument use for why trains are better then cars.

Maybe your infra needs to become public domain then Sam :)

A lot of people want local inference, and somehow they assume that the problem is solved now because we have open-source models, we’re going to be able to run them on our computers, and so we’re not going to need all the stuff in the data center.

We don't need them even without local inference. There was already more than enough total global compute for the most valuable use cases of LLMs (research, development, admin). The datacenter build-up is almost entirely fueled by utterly unrealistic expectations of future capabilities. Before and now the case for local inference is a matter of access, not capacity.

But from a global allocation perspective, actually it’s quite terrible to have everybody, like, have a bunch of the world’s limited supply of DRAM sitting in their own computer and being used five percent of the time.

Utilitarianism like this is a disease. By the same logic, it's inefficient that we allow other species of animals to exist and consume usable energy. Hell, why stop at other species? It's inefficient to allow humans to exist - let's kill all humans!

Now, I know that's not what he said, the point was to show that when someone uses utilitarianism as a serious argument, they are no longer worth listening to.

Like you want maximum utilisation in the cloud if you’re trying to deal with this very supply-constrained environment,

The supply is only constrained because you keep hoarding more than you need. Maybe it's time for some communization? So communities where data centers are built get most if not all of the profits from it?