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Oh they know

We all know that an industry that spends more than it earns should collapse but I'm not so certain it is imminent.

“Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.” feels like a quote that holds very true in today's market.

The investors know too. They just need to hype it up so the next is bigger than them and bail them out.

It's a pyramid scheme for billionaires. They just hope they're not at the bottom of the pyramid.

Same as NFTs and every other bubble where it was clear that it was a bubble

There is going to be a LOT of used hardware on the market if it does.

Everyone knows the collapse of the AI bubble is imminent

Paul Krugman was predicting the Housing Crash as early as 2004 in his NYT column.

Everyone knows except the people who are investing billions of dollars into AI and their press.

The theory of the modern tech industry is that you can simply outrun your problems. Meta/Facebook has done this repeatedly, leaping over multi-billion-dollar failure after failure based entirely on the inertia of their core product growth combined with low interest rates and a bullish long term economic outlook.

Even in the worst-case scenario, we have such an enormous array of tools to manipulate markets - as demonstrated in 2008 and 2014 and 2020 - that investors are reluctant to sell with a massive federal bailout always on the horizon. And we're far from the worst-case scenario. '26 Q2 was a historic earnings season. We are in the middle of the biggest bull market in history.

Put it together aligning with the housing collapse and we gonna be living great.

That is why you sell shovels rather than mine the gold yourself. These memory companies know what they are doing...

Here's the thing about bubbles - when people believe that collapse is imminent, they hold back and don't dive in. It is only when the overwhelming majority believe that this new thing can't lose, is going to change the world, and that we are in a "new paradigm" where the old rules don't matter, that the bubble has peaked and collapse is imminent. We've probably got another year or so before collapse. Too many people are still skeptical.

I wondering if there is any benefit for me in having all the RAM my motherboard allows for when this bubble burst, and Ram prices fall like a rock to rock bottom.

and the industry inflicted it upon itself with the shit eating grin

I think we are "lucky" that it effects all computer like electronics (laptops, PCs, gaming consoles, phones). If it was only PCs, the PC as we know it would die out.

My prediction is that all software will use less ram and less GPU in the coming years. If companies keep on shifting towards higher requirements year after year, people won't buy it anymore because it will simply not run on a mainstream machine anymore.

Nope. As long as demand exists. And you can't just make it disappear like that.

that's server ram (registered ecc), which costs a lot more than 'normal' modules

Well, people aren’t really paying. Theoretically, large AI investment groups are paying. I say theoretically because as far as I understand it, they’ve mostly promised to buy the output but I don’t think have actually made good on buying it. The manufactured scarcity is being realized as increased memory costs, but the contracts are still landing even though the biggest contract may not actually be filled in the future (AI bubble). It’s why memory makers are trying to get Apple and co to commit to today’s prices for the next 3 years, because if they do and the big contract falls through, they still get their insane profit margin baked in for a bit and then can stockpile / price fix / sell through to market.

The big wrench here will be if Chinese memory fabs come online. If that big contract (AI) defaults, existing contracts are going to be very much worthless as folks would rather cancel them and fill orders at CXMT. So you may see a lot of consumer memory start filling from those fabs as they take market share while traditional players try to price fix. So the real question is, will cxmt try to capture market or play price fixing with the current cartel? My money is on market share.

Jokes on you we will soon be raiding data centers for fresh water

Pull in close and fire grapeshot broadside!

microsoft's own evaluation chills me, because it's spot on, and THEY STILL WENT FULL FUCKIN HOG deepthroating this garbage:

“Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions,” an internal Microsoft document admitted.

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-is-creating-doom-loops-all-over-the-economy

The massive financial crash that will wipeout those assholes might the only real "win" the rest of us get.

Of course, judging by the last one in 2008 (which, IMHO, I suspect will turn out to be smaller than the AI one), governments the world over will try to save the assholes and make the rest of us pay for it with Austerity - if there's one thing I've learned from living through a couple of major crashes (in the very industries most hard hit) and several minor ones is that when those in power see that they can rescue the wealthy whilst making the rest pay with no consequences for themselves, they'll do it again and again in ever more extreme ways, until things at a societal level rather than just crack, actually blow up.

We shall see - there is really no way the rest of us can stop the desperate feeding frenzy amongst the increasingly panicked elites and their politician minions before the whole thing crashes from the systemic accumulation of inbalances, so no matter what we (the common folk) do, we're going to get a massive AI crash - probably as big as the Net Crash and the 2008 Crash together - the more the feeding freenzy lasts (and governments as usual are activelly trying to delay the day of reckoning, hence making the feeding frenzy last longer and hit deeper) and the more of the broader Economy the sharks can reach, the worse it will be.

But hoarding shit and accumulation is what capitalism does.

Still playing tf2 <3

Also indie games tend to be quite good, I'm currently playing Obenseuer and my buddy and I are doing a run of Abiotic Factor with Valheim and possibly Permafrost on the list. Have to see how Permafrost plays.

My main computer is 13 years old, with a graphics card that is even older. No, I haven't played a lot of the newer games, but there are more than enough to keep me occupied and happy that can run perfectly well on my hardware.

It might be different if I was into multiplayer games, but I'm not.

Freelancer

Elder scrolls 2: Daggerfall

Grand Theft Auto 1 + 2

Minetest

Doom mod repository

Stalker Gamma

Last one might need more then a fried potato to run lol

"the people responsible will get sway with it"

Not only will they get away with it, but they will make massive profits off of it. They will be buying up foreclosed houses, colluding with their friends to short stocks of businesses they buy up and and run into the ground, buying the dip, and still having more than enough leftover to live how they are currently living.

Every time there is one of these recessions or economic crisises, the rich get a lot richer. To them it's just "buying season". They have enough money to wait it out.

Yup. We even know when it's going to hit - 2027-8.

https://www.groundbrkr.com/p/the-teaser-period-why-the-ai-boom?subscribe_prompt=free