• SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    So we’d own a basic terminal, and pay a subscription for our computing needs.

    Gosh, who’d’a thunkit? Never saw that one coming.

    • MrShankles@reddthat.com
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      7 hours ago

      Especially not when he said how he envisions ai to someday be a utility like water or electricity, that everyone will pay for

      Shocked, I tell you. I’m utterly shocked

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      7 hours ago

      So we’d own a basic terminal, and pay a subscription for our computing needs.

      No.

      We would rent a proprietary terminal that also needs a paid subscription to a computing service.

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      8 hours ago

      “In this supply-constrained environment, efficiency of centralized control only makes sense!”

      “For whom? Also, why is the supply constrained in the first place?”

      “Well, we used hype from central bank-level investors to lend us enough to buy up all the supply. We have sooo much debt that we need every penny of efficiency we can get.”

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        7 hours ago

        “In this supply-constrained environment, efficiency of centralized control only makes sense!”

        “For whom?

        Makes (financial) sense for the central controller’s business model to succeed.