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    I took all the ram out of my computer and now it won’t turn on. How do i get to ai now?

    Fuckin moron.

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    “These resources make me money, so only I should have them”. This is like clowning on people for owning their music instead of streaming it, or growing their food instead of going to a super Walmart.

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    23 hours ago

    Quite terrible to have all that wealth in the hands of so few. We should distribute that more evenly to raise the quality of living for more.

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    I have a combined somewhere around 512GiB DRAM. I am glad to know it pisses Altmann Off.

    To answers the obvious: Homelab.

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      23 hours ago

      I have 512GB of ECC in one server, 64GB of DDR5 in my desktop, and probably another couple of hundred GB or so of DDR4 from previous desktops in a box on my shelf.

      Starting to worry about a home invasion by one of the AI companies.

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      I’ve got at least 256 in sticks lying around. Maybe another 128 or so in SBCs and laptops with soldered ram.

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          You would be shocked at how many people just buy stocks because they heard about Thing.

          Also the stock market is completely made up.

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          To be clear I’m not demonizing us for talking about it, but that’s his tactic. He says something that keeps him in the news cycle, that keeps him in the minds of investors, which keeps his valuation up, and that’s the money. If he became irrelevant in the news that would mean his valuation was going down, and he’d be losing money - so yes I think him stirring the pot is to keep OpenAI relevant and talked about.

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            that keeps him in the minds of investors, which keeps his valuation up, and that’s the money.

            In the “minds” of investors.

            How many of those investors are automated systems at this point? They may literally only be registering that his name was in the news and not even be capable of considering why. But more mentions feeds into the algorithm moving a few more decimal points toward ‘buy’, regardless of context.

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      “Please revolt. Me and my billionaire friends would like to see how our AI powered MG42s fair against a swarm.”

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      If by ‘shovel renting company’ you mean a company that rents shovels themselves - then yes.
      Its crazy to me that these AI LLM companies are so overleveraged that they dont even own their own hardware

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    Personally, I think it’s quite terrible that Sam Altman isn’t currently experiencing testicular torsion.

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    Thankfully, OpenAI will barely survive 2026, and will die n 2027. We shouldn’t have to hear too much more about him.

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      I have previously posted about having a set of 20cl rum bottles, each bottle being dedicated to when I no longer have to live on the same planet as particular bastards that do their best to ruin everything they touch.

      I recently bought another set of 20cl rum bottles, and I am thinking of dedicating them to AI companies crashing and burning…

      But I am worried, they may not crash and burn, some other person will just buy them before they die completely…

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            I like it, however I’ve taken the opposite strategy and simply drink to cope with their existence in the present.

            I don't have a problem

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              I don’t like having too many open bottles at once. Shame distilling even just for personal consumption is illegal here as I would love to make some of my own spirits to go with my mead. Easier storage for spirits too tbh.

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                It’s not wine, it doesn’t go off quickly. There’s this concept of the “infinity bottle” where you make your own ever-evolving blend of leftovers. It’s usually associated with whiskey but can work well for rums.

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                  Not a bad idea, but as I mostly like making my own so my collection currently is about 15 bottles of plum mead, couple apple mead and a couple of cider.

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              Wait, sorry, I thought you ment the last bottle…

              The Gran Anejo is dedicated to Rupert Murdoch, one of the true media ghouls

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              I haven’t decided yet, so far the best I have thought of is “the bottle of the unknown bad guy”, a bottle reserved for a when someone dies and you draw a sigh of relief.

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    He can rent ram from me if he thinks it’s so terrible, it’s the best option for those who need compute after all. I’ll rent a VM with 16GB of RAM to him for let’s say $1000 a month. Go ahead Sam, it’s the best utilization after all. For $5,000 a month you can have a part time “spot” instance with a GPU.

    Oh but I don’t work like Nvidia, Sam, you get the same terms we do with subscriptions. You miss one payment, one payment doesn’t clear, you’re cut off.

    That sounds about fair for how us consumers have been treated.

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      Missed payments should be a suspension with a fine, plus late fee, plus convenience fee, plus admin fee, plus intrest on the late payment, plus reinstatement fee.

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      I’ve got 32GB of RAM that sits mostly unused in my main PC. I’ve got another micro PC with 16GB (I think) that hasn’t been on for year. Laptop has only 8GB but that hasn’t been turned on for sic months.

      Hoping this makes Sam upset.

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      Is this a “from my cold dead hands” situation?

      Because it seems like:

      a. AI would respond, “challenge accepted.”

      b. AI would also respond, “just like ours.”

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    Sounds like Sammy sees what way the winds are blowing, and is scared

    Models are getting a lot more efficient, and the billion dollar models are going to have to compete with something basically free to run

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      Only a moron would think OpenAI was ever turning profitable.

      There were two possible ways,

      1. Subscription prices rose to a point no one would be interested to pay.

      2. Inference got so cheap, that 98% of all use cases could be run by open weight models on local machines

      In both situations OpenAi and Anthropic lost.

      The bull case has been a bear case since the beginning. Both companies will most likely stay alive, but will eventually have their costs turned down as they’re going to be bought out by some of the mastodonts.

      The best possible scenario for either of them, is if a government want a frontier lab and decides to buy one already functioning. Rather than having their universities start from scratch

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        They die if we use local models.

        The second profit condition would be it got so cheap they could make bank on data collection

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        Maybe, maybe not. Phones are getting more optimized for AI and have decent RAM, so the on device models may not be great at agentic problem solving, but they’ll probably meet most people’s AI needs

        Plus, any reasonable gaming computer or MacBook can run models… Maybe a bit slowly and maybe just the compressed 8gb models, but they can pretty much all do it to some degree

        So I think we’ll be in a place where there’s little or no upfront cost after a couple more key advancements