McDonald’s can probably make hamburgers more efficiently than everyone can at home, but I’m not eating that shit any more than I’m giving Sam Altman my money or data.

Funny how there weren't any systemic supply issues until someone decided to buy up all the RAM ...

A lot of people want to be billionaires, and somehow they assume the problem is solved because we have unfettered predatory late stage capitalism and oligarchy in America, we're going to be able to amass as much money as we want in our bank accounts, and so we're all going to be rich without oversight, accountability or government interference.

But from a global allocation perspective, actually it's quite terrible to have everybody, like, have a bunch of the world's wealth sitting in a few private bank accounts and being used .05% of the time.

Like you want maximum circulation of currency if you're trying to reduce inequality in this artificial scarcity environment,

And somehow, Americans' intuitions are the opposite of that.

FTFY Sam.

Some of you will have to sacrifice for the greater good, but it won’t be him.

Personal computers are a ridiculous idea, you should use our scalable mainframes instead --IBM in the 80s, probably

Sam Altman is a terrible utilization of scarce resources.

I want to use ram for things unrelated to AI you fucking prick.

That's insanely ironic coming from him. Meanwhile the crazy amount of waste that these companies are producing buying all the GPUs to create artificial scarcity. They are terrified of people being able to run their own local LLMs because it completely destroyed their entire business model, they will never be profitable.

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.

We don't need them even without local inference. There was already more than enough total global compute for the most valuable use cases of LLMs (research, development, admin). The datacenter build-up is almost entirely fueled by utterly unrealistic expectations of future capabilities. Before and now the case for local inference is a matter of access, not capacity.

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.

Utilitarianism like this is a disease. By the same logic, it's inefficient that we allow other species of animals to exist and consume usable energy. Hell, why stop at other species? It's inefficient to allow humans to exist - let's kill all humans!

Now, I know that's not what he said, the point was to show that when someone uses utilitarianism as a serious argument, they are no longer worth listening to.

Like you want maximum utilisation in the cloud if you’re trying to deal with this very supply-constrained environment,

The supply is only constrained because you keep hoarding more than you need. Maybe it's time for some communization? So communities where data centers are built get most if not all of the profits from it?

Can you imagine everyone carrying around gigabytes of memory, in their pocket? Unthinkable.

Central planning but by the private sector

I bet he owns a car that gets less than 5% usage.

new title:

"Man whose company lost $20b in previous year explains how to allocate resources."

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'.

And there it is.

“We made components scarce, so you have no choice but to use our cloud services where we control everything and you rent the privilege from us.”

Literally called it. Fuck these assholes with everything rusty.

Moronic logic. The only reason LLM's work is because they scraped the internet, something only possible because personal computing became available to the wider public.
Next he's going to suggest that we just stop giving people any education and let a handful of elites do the thinking for the masses. What an absolute clown.

Ram is so cheap to make that until the AI demand companies basically had to create new levels of density/speed and sell for less just to keep the business afloat. This is like when cellphone companies tried to claim megabytes were a precious finite resource. We live in a post scarcity society and these billion assholes are like “well that just won’t do”.

It reminds me of that kid we all know who just learned economics from school house rock and then goes “now if I can simply find every evee Pokémon card in the world and burn them all except for the one I have, I’ll be rich!”

It’s just so frustrating to see this sheer stupid amount of greed all of the time. Thanks for coming to my TEDex talk.

distributing trust to every person on the planet is so inefficient. All trust should be given to me!

Fuck this loser piece of shit

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...

Computing for me, not for thee

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.

letting sam altman (or billionaires for that matter) have all the money from our work is a poor allocation of resources.

Shovel seller vehemently against you building your own shovel

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.

It's not about resource utilization in the first place. We don't trust you.

we lost Captain Picard yesterday, yet this lazy-eyed cardboard human gets to keep using oxygen. there is no justice in this world.

Please don't run AI for free on your own workstation 😭 it's a very bad use of your computer 😥

"Raping your own siblings at home is terribly inefficient when we have private islands where we can keep and rape other people's siblings."

He's absolutely right! This is a great argument for nationalizing it into a public service. I imagine he'll be happy to hand over what he's got so far, and step back going forwards. Thanks Sam!

Sounds like a problem for the sharing economy: kinda like you're able to do https://foldingathome.org/

I'm sure someone will come up with a solution that lets you rent out excess capacity from your gpu cluster.

Yeah no. I will hoard all the computing resources I can. Fuck you Altman.

But Sam, local inference is what would prevent our data from being used by creepy advertisers.

No.. he actually is right. A local machine will sit idle most if the time.

A data center can balance loads globally.

In terms of resources.. data centers ARE cheaper.

However ... there are other reasons to use local interference that might be more important than added cost

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.

Oh BROTHER this does this guy suck!

This is what crack heads sound like when explaining why they stole some junk off of someone's porch

This fucking guy needs to suck a tailpipe