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[–] 153 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Look how much money is wasted in billionaires. It would be far more useful with poor people who would actually use the money instead of hoarding it like dragons.

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  • [–] 121 points 1 day ago

    Free as in unallocated

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  • [–] 95 points 1 day ago* (1 child)

    Hi Sam,

    I hear RAM is hard to come by these days, so it feels a bit rude to be sitting on 248.1 GiB of it. Total installed: 251.7 GiB. It's not for sale, I just like knowing it's there.

    Stay allocated, A concerned RAM owner

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  • [–] 54 points 1 day ago (8 children)

    I'm really not sure why he wants all these male sheep anyways.

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  • [–] 1 point 23 hours ago (3 children)

    Dragons are known for hoarding wealth and stealing sheep.

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  • [–] 1 point 23 hours ago* (2 children)

    #NotAllDragons

    I just hoard things I should probably throw away, but it might be useful later.

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  • [–] 42 points 1 day ago

    It's not vibecoded if anyone else wanted to check.

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  • [–] 37 points 1 day ago* (2 children)

    There's also a RAM vinyl just sitting on my shelves, unused...

    Yeah, why shouldn't I listen to it again?

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  • [–] 35 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)
  • [–] 30 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    Surely if he needs RAM so badly he'd accept donations, right?

    Is there anywhere he accepts large files? Because surely there's some generous souls who would upload RAM to help him out

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    Ohhh man, he'd hate to hear 128GB DDR5 is just sitting in my basement unused at this time. Building an office/game room and it's disconnected for <1year

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  • [–] 21 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    That much RAM could pay my mortgage

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  • [–] 14 points 1 day ago

    Honestly the best version of this joke so far.

    I love you beautifully creative bastards.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    Any chance you could get charged for harassment or something using this?

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  • [–] 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

    It's America so yes.

    Also, big tech can hire expensive lawyers and drag out the process for years. There is no justice when you have rich vs normal.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 day ago

    My extra spicy first pre coffee thought im response to Sam Altman's viewpoint here: I imagine sam Altmans neighbors have bullets, just wasting their potential sitting in boxes. they yearn for the minds

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  • [–] 9 points 1 day ago (4 children)

    In fairness, he says the remarks were taken out of context, posted “i want you to have so much ram”, and briefly went by Ram Altman on X. That makes this script a daily progress report.

    Umm I read/watched the context and somehow the message does not change. Am I missing something?
    Do I hallucinate or does he?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    He definitely hallucinates, but I think what he might be trying to imply is that if they get more RAM in the data centers it'll be easier to get more RAM for people and lower the over all cost? Which because of capitalism is obvious bullshit. But also, this is the guy that said AI will bring about the end of the world, so I suspect he wants more RAM to speed up that process.

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  • [–] 3 points 23 hours ago

    What he implied was that in a shortage of RAM, RAM that's sitting in a PC doing nothing, is useless to most of the world, whereas RAM in a shared resource (data center) gets utilized significantly more. Which is not incorrect. It's just that 1) personal freedom, 2) why should the shared resource be allocated to a private company

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  • [–] 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    cute, and i love the sentiment, but unless it can actually waste sam altman's money i'm not interested.

    he has changed his user name on twitter to "ram altman". he does not care about the jokes.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    Pffft. We all know you can just download more ram. What's this guys problem?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago

    Love this. Totally using this

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  • [+] -6 points 1 day ago (6 children)

    I am new, so be gentle? But is any part of his sentiment correct? From a societal change and/or national security for AGI development perspective the more RAM/data centers the quicker he achieves these goals which in his mind will up end computing and the human relation to computing. While yes I want to game, program, and use my own internet machine the faster we reach the tipping point he has envisioned the sooner none of that will matter.

    The question is whether that goal is achievable. And the reason he has been lambasted is because most folks who k ow what's what, do not think it is nearly as easy or achievable as he does.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 day ago*

    i don't think it's worth making our present worse as it is now for a hypothetical future utopia, even if the chances were quite high (they're not).

    People and the environment are suffering now because of big tech's incessant rush for an AI singularity, expensive ram is only a small thing on a huge pile of grievances.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 day ago

    Surely the best and most secure system is one with multiple levels of redundancy? Spreading RAM over a large area means that there is no one single point of failure / single target to attack. Everyone having their own AI would be the best end goal (assuming the technology ever actually starts to provide dividends).

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

    Sam Altman is a notorious liar, his job is to get the press to spread fear, uncertainty and doubt, but not in the usual way - aimed at competitors - but his own company. Because uuuh, big scary AI very powerful, very smart, very super, wouldn't want to be left in the dust, buy now!

    The RAM comment he made doesn't actually help with that though, it just pissed people off because the AI hype has caused prices to shoot up and stay up. It's the head of a private company sounding incredibly entitled and tone-deaf. So now he tries to backpedal, probably also because there's real resistance to data center plans.

    I think the hype bubble jumped the shark when he announced that he believes that we're already in the age of AGI. We are so clearly not that you'd think that even the dumbest investor would start asking questions. Maybe they'll notice that actual researchers are calling him out on his bullshit too. We are still in the "AI sends you to the gas station on foot because gas is expensive" era and won't be leaving it with the current tech.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    Why would RAM suddenly be less or even irrelevant when we would actually have AGO?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago

    I think in the mind of the tech bros there is this utopia where AGI would/could fix ALL problems.

    You would then prompt AGI-GPT: "Hey we are low on RAM, please fix. No mistakes". Immediately the AIs big brain would find a solution; hordes of autonomous robots swarm out and start working to build factories, mine resources, enslave humanity , build infrastructure... It would build cheap RAM for everyone!

    spoilerThen Ram Altman wakes up from his dream and finds a wet spot in his pants.

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