If you have a hammer in your shed, are you depriving your neighbor of a hammer? Your neighbor can get their own hammer, and you'd both be better off than if you had to go rent one from the local hammer monger.

Altman is creating the RAM shortage that he points to as justification for hoarding all the RAM. It's a circular argument. If he didn't manufacture scarcity, then everyone would be able to have their own RAM.

He's the only one in this situation depriving anyone of compute power, and it's because he wants to rent it all back to them. (Yes, Musk, Zuck, Bezos, and Pichai are guilty here too).

Let's agree to disagree. When off, it's saving power. I used to be one of those that kept my computer on sleep and only turned it off through a restart for upgrades, or to take it apart and clean it. That was me being lazy and giving 0 fucks about resources and the common good. Not anymore.

Yes that precious silicon, the rarest of earthen elements of which we have so little.

And of course the fabrication of semiconducting integrated circuits, which was always in such high demand that prices kept all the peasants from being able to operate any.

Such powers should be reserved for those with superior power and ways of thinking anyway, don’t you agree?