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[–] 56 points 1 week ago (1 child)
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    can't the datacenters just use swap

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  • [–] 12 points 1 week ago

    ARE YOU HIDING RAM FROM ME???

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  • [–] 11 points 1 week ago (5 children)

    Okay okay, what did I miss?

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  • [–] 44 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    Sam Altman lamented in an interview where he was asked about the RAM supply shortages (that he is partly responsible for) that it's terribly inefficient for "a bunch of the world's limited supply of DRAM" to be sitting in people's personal computers and suggested it would be much more efficient to centralize it all in (his) data centers where it would be more fully utilized (charged by usage at a rate that he sets, of course).

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago

    That sounds like all the old west capitalists who thought that every drop of water in a river that reached the ocean, every acre of unspoiled forest, every inch of prairie that was untilled, every ore filled mountain that wasn’t dug up, any piece of beautiful landscape that had coal left under it was a waste. Every valley should be filled with smoke stacks, every animal that’s not in a stock yard should be shot. Screw the song birds, you should be able to hear a steam whistle from anywhere in the country.

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    [–] 8 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    I’d rather ram hide than hide ram IYKWIM

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    Suck it out of me, patriot

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    If we assume Sam Dickhead Altman is arguing in good faith (he's not, but let's pretend), then he does have a point, it is "inefficient". I'd argue that this is hardly the most important factor. Much more important than raw efficiency is security, stability, privacy, ownership, and other less easily measured metrics.

    So even at face value, he's still a dickhead.

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