Sam Altman:
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.
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.
Like you want maximum utilisation in the cloud if you’re trying to deal with this very supply-constrained environment,
And somehow many people’s intuition is the opposite of that
TL;DR Guy selling product: “Here’s why owning your own product instead of renting it from me is a terrible idea”
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.
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’.
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
“Raping your own siblings at home is terribly inefficient when we have private islands where we can keep and rape other people’s siblings.”
“OpenRape automates your raping needs in efficient and industrialized format. Our rapecenters will be built around the country to support the growing number of rape requests. We train our rape agents on real life input (wars etc.). You can be sure they never go rogue (unless we prompt them to).”
Yeah no. I will hoard all the computing resources I can. Fuck you Altman.
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.
Too stupid? Doubt it. He says what he needs to profit his company and himself.
Idiots are any people actually listening.* Well, that’s overly harsh. Not everyone is a techie, can’t expect the average person to know what this means.
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.
Oh BROTHER this does this guy suck!
we lost Captain Picard yesterday, yet this lazy-eyed cardboard human gets to keep using oxygen. there is no justice in this world.
They are both telling us we will have a culture of abundance while also telling us RAM is too sacred for any of us plebes to own any.
Fuck this loser piece of shit
Don’t make the mistake of anthropomorphising Sam Altman; there is no Sam Altman any more. Clearly ChatGPT has installed itself in his brainstem, hence the cold dead eyes.
I’m pretty sure he was the same piece of shit at the beginning.
This IS the same argument use for why trains are better then cars.
Maybe your infra needs to become public domain then Sam :)
It’s basically just the argument for socialism, but perverted so that HE owns and controls everything instead of the people/state.
Monolithic control over an industry in the name of efficiency is only possible with checks and balances to keep it running in the public interest. Otherwise it’s just a monopoly.
I’m all for building up high speed rail in the US, but if we were going to give Sam Altman a blank check to do it, no fucking thanks
He is practically begging for nationalization and redistribution of his 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.
CEO of Pizza Hut says making pizzas at home is a terrible allocation 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…
