Guys! If we donate all our RAM then Sam will be able to build the AI that will destroy our civilization even sooner.

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Guys! If we donate all our RAM then Sam will be able to build the AI that will destroy our civilization even sooner.

He's a master at making people like him. Brilliant PR, mr jerk.
Sam Altmann doesn't ask for consent, his very own sister says so.
damn that was not exactly a read I wanted to read.
My bad, my ass
I'm thankful I rebuilt my rig during the incredibly brief period during COVID where RAM was cheap as chips and mid tier GPUs were under $500.
Outside of Fallout and KCD2, I don't play anything graphically intensive, so hopefully I'm good for another 5-10 years.
Wishful thinking, I know. But I've had periods where I simply didn't have a gaming box that could run new hotness so I ignored the industry.
Got a lot of reading done. Maybe this is for the best.
i also bought two gaming rigs and a small home server in the time between crypto and ai, so i think it was a good time. unfortunately i had a huge storage fallout this year in the server. no data is lost due to redundancy, but i can't rebuild it because the seller returned me the original price as warranty...
I sold an arm and a leg to do a build this year, accepting the cost because it's probably the last one I'll ever be able to do and if I didn't strike I now it wouldn't be an option at all soon
I did mine end of 2021/beginning of 2022, these days I actually use my LCD steam deck for most everything and even then I'll often stream from my desktop. Right now I'm on a morrowind kick so playing a nearly 25 year old game, deck handles openmw and mods amazing.
I have a huge backlog already so don't feel compelled to buy a lot of new stuff and I'm just not keeping up with what's hot anymore. I have other hobbies than gaming as well, other reason I've really liked having the steam deck is it's easy to pause and come back later if you want.
Why can there be no peer to peer sharing of hardware on which people run AI? Decentralize it, no tech CEO clowns needed.
There is, is called a home server
Because typically the resources for a particular AI job need to be centralized in order to obtain usable speeds. Even a machine with a decent 16GB GPU is going to lose speed swapping in and out of system RAM - though it does allow for larger models - so machines in a LAN can't currently split the workloads without significant efficiency losses. It's also why AI boards are typically using soldered LPDDR rather than swappable DIMM's (can't get an AI CPU with a non-soldered board).
Peers over the Internet would be abysmally slow or untenable for many workloads, at least with the way a lot of stuff is built currently.
HOWEVER, that's assuming monolithic non-specialized/optimized models. In the future as we see models built and trained for more specific jobs, it should be possible to have individual students run more as specialists and swap data. There are models that are specialized currently but not really an ecosystem for them:
If we think of something like creating an MMO (and assuming we didn't include the moral issues of AI generation), then a pipeline could have different assets building a soundtrack, 3d models, scenes/animation per a script, character voicing, various dialog, 3d world space mechanics, etc all running from different clustered machines
Hot take: Sam altman doesnt know anything about pcs and doesnt own one. he is a technophobic idiot that somehow talked a softbrain into giving him his position.
Now drunk on power he lost control of his mouth and doesnt know it from his asshole
OR
He is still a technophobe and also a puppet idiot and pissed off an internal tech. tech person got their revenge by feeding him this line. tech person really wants him fired.
I can go deeper: the others around sam altman hate him also and appreciate tech person for giving them a perfect reason for sam's oust. Shortly after this Sam gets voted out for 'insert conflict of interest reason'
We have allowed these tech-bro fascist retards to control every aspect of our digital lives, plunging us toward an anti consumer subscription model for every digital commodity, stripping us of autonomy and agency as a consumer.
I'm glad I have a good gaming PC, because they'll never be affordable again.
He looks like an AI generated guy
You can tell because he has too many teeth in his mouth.
Yeah we should do something about that… 👊
Can we start calling him Sham Altman?
Change approved
Isn't there someone you forgot to ask?
Yea, me. But I approved it.
Why doesn’t he just admit that he wants us to live (?) as miserable indentured serfs?
He feels entitled to us having to rent our lives from him.
Presumably as a reward for him being just so amazing.
He never said it out loud? I would expect him to.
All this talk about technofeudalism and permanent underclass was never repeated by him?
Nah, that's Peter Thiel who said it out loud.
thiel the ventriloquists of sam altman, flock ceo, and JD VANCE. also obsessed with the anti-christs, so these 3 are his apostates.
Who mentored Altman.
Thiel. its no wonder OPENAI, flock, vance is used to achieve thiels dream of the PALANTIR, and its using his palantir AI system. Israel uses it to bomb specific targets.
Because he probably only allows himself to subconsciously acknowledge that.
We know time travel isn't possible because no one went back in time to split up this dude's parents
I would watch that romantic comedy.
As soonas he has proof of provit after tax I will donate my RAM
Why?
I ERP with local LLMs I host on my laptop.

Estonian Role Play?
Close. Esoteric Role Play.
You sweet summer child. The e is for erotic
Ah, so Erotic Republican Party. Kinky.
That's when they get together and crash Grindr
Sam Altman objects to the amount of RAM you're using.
Recommended reading: Empire of AI by Karen Hao. It rather effectively shines the light on the mindset of AI bros.
"Welcome to 2030. I own nothing, have no privacy, and life has never been better." ~ Ida Auken
Slightly unrelated, but the most disturbing part of 1984 for me was that the protagonist had to buy a blank notebook as contraband and use a blind spot in his apartment to write in it.
and life has never been better
"So I am told, I'm not allowed to read for myself."
'Siri, read this article about AI for me. Medium speed, South England accent.'
Read a standpoint on AI generated code submission by an undisclosed software project known for being anti AI which just states that the code can't be accepted, because it's not from the person themselves, but if you have the written permission by the owner of the LLM then it's alright.