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The RAM shortage is coming for everything you care about (www.theverge.com)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 61 points 8 months ago (48 children)

Going to be fucking hilarious when all the western companies get fucked by China taking over the market they don't seem to care about.

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    They’re wealthy but absolute fucking morons. The people who fall for the “they have money so they must be smart” are such gullible buffoons. CCP is much more competent than American oligarchs, running what could’ve been great with better policy into the ground.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago* (5 children)

    AI is the last great bubble.

    And it, like all bubbles, will pop.

    You are already seeing the people in the know flee the field.

    You see reports that every company that has adopted it has at best changed nothing, at worst lost money on it.

    Outside of the psychotic linked in CEO bubble, literally no one wants AI. And every day its generating more and more hate due to its halucinations, mistakes, and bullshit.

    Its garnering massive negative attention for its use, and for anyone stupid enough to adopt it at this point (cough intel cough)

    Its a dying star, and people are frantically trying to harvest the last bits of warmth from it before going off in search of new horizons.

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    I can only assume you haven't used it for anything it's good at lately. The truth is somewhere in the middle. Just like we still have websites after the dot com bubble, there will still be LLMs after the AI bubble pops.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    The only stories I’ve ever heard of involving AI are told by people who, once again, are unable to see how their increase in productivity is not being met with a reduction in work hours. Unless, or course, “reduction in work hours” means they are being shown the door so a different idiot can do kore work for the same amount of pay.

    Why does everyone feel the need to do as much as possible as quickly as possible at all times of every single day? And why are most people I talk to using ChatGPT to replace Google searches so they don’t need to actually think?

    We all need to slow the fuck down.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    worker productivity continues to climb ever higher, yet wages never grow with it.

    take someone from the 1950s office and ask them to do the same amount of work that an officer worker today does, and they'd quit on the spot. especially since they'd be paid less today than they were in the 1950s as far as buying power goes.

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago (27 children)

    Don't count on China. They are going to invade Taiwan next year and the global trade embargo will be a rounding error to the destruction of the tmsc factories during that war. Or they will capture the fabs and prohibit export to the US. Loose loose for us.

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  • [–] 17 points 8 months ago (22 children)

    "China, a country that hasn't invaded another country in 50 years, is going to invade this country" said the country that invades a country once a decade.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago (6 children)

    yes, because what happened in the past can perfectly predict what's going to happen next.

    not saying you are definitely wrong, but if someone wants to have a bet i wouldn't bet on the side of China not invading.

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  • [–] -1 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    Spoken like an American

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    Spoken like someone who is blinded by the Trump admin, obliviously naive. You must’ve been one of those that thought Russia would never invade Ukraine despite US intelligence.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (3 children)

    I'm blinded by the Trump administration because I don't believe American propaganda about Chinese aggression?

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    No because you’re using your current “America bad” outrage to justify other countries and their expansionism. Other countries can be bad, you know? Many just were unable to do so under American hegemony.

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  • [–] 0 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    China hasn't tried to expand or colonize anyone in my lifetime. America has some so numerous times. Maybe stop being so defensive and look at history without your America colored glasses.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    I never once tried to say the US is perfect but countries are also more hesitant to do things like that due to US policing. So yes, while the U.S. has done bad, its geopolitical stance post WW2 has been mostly successful in stabilizing the world and deterring aggression.

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago* (12 children)

    China a country that has been trying to unify Taiwan since the civil war they couldn’t quite finish.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (11 children)

    When you live in the imperial core of one of the most militaristic nations in the history of the world, everything seems like a provocation.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (10 children)

    Ironic considering much of the world was constantly in conflict prior to Pax Americana.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (9 children)

    America has engaged in war the majority of the post world war 2 era. Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan twice, Iraq twice. And that's not including all the proxy wars they've funded.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (7 children)

    Yes every instance was totally bad. The U.S. should’ve done nothing to counter USSR and their dominoes across the world. US should’ve just let every country fall into an authoritarian USSR influenced country.

    Obviously, I don’t blindly think every war was good, such as Bush era Iraq. However, defending Kuwait was 100% defensible in Gulf War.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (6 children)

    The point I'm trying to make is America likes war a lot. China hasn't fought a war in 50 years. It's hard to take Americans seriously when they accuse someone of being aggressive.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (2 children)

    China spent 250 billion US dollars on defense last year. Clearly that’s for nothing.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

    The US has solo hegemony and super power status that has been challenged but never overtaken. US/NATO (for what’s left of it) is the strongest alliance on the planet. My point is other countries are generally hesitant to start conflict due to US policing and involvement.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (9 children)

    What's your source for that. China has no more reason to invade Taiwan next year than they have at any point in the last 30 years

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    China has been wanting to reunite with Taiwan ever since the founding of the PRC. the reason has always been there, and right now they are more ready than ever.

    keep a close eye on what Chinese military is doing.

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  • [–] 0 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Why are they more ready now than they were 2 years ago? Politically nothing has really changed I know Americans like to think that Trump is a big factor but he isn't, since even he is just as bullish on China as any other US president has been and it's not as if the military is left.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    Well, our economy is collapsing from bad debt and inflation, we’ve alienated ourselves from our ally’s, we’ve relocated aircraft carriers and are starting new wars.

    It’s honestly a great time for china to exert some force.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (3 children)

    Why would they need to invade Taiwan? They already have their own companies making RAM.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    It's well known that Taiwan has all strategic factories mined. If a single Chinese soldier steps on the island, anything industrial of value will be blown to bits. China is interested in the land.

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