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5mon 18d ago by lemmy.blahaj.zone/u/not_IO in lemmyshitpost from lemmy.blahaj.zone
That's the least significant reason for beating Sam Altman to death.
Once you’ve been searching on the internet for a fact, you’ll never stop wanting to beat every AI tech bro to death with your bare hands.
Why not both?
Why stop at both of them?
There's a quite sizeable list at the moment
We can tag team each other.
Elon Musk wanted to do this, but his mom said he couldn’t.
Oof, you lucky dog. Except the last part, but that's just the difference between being just lucky and being really fucking lucky.
My friend bought what he thought was 16GB ddr5 for $50, but turned out to be 10 sets for $500. Now they're selling for about $250 each. Everything is insane!
whaaat? did he really say this or is this ai?
ai is so realistic now.
You are now permanently banned from Reddit
And the only reason you're not banned from X is because Altman and Musk are competing for the same tech messiah title.
But why not give in? Bottling up negative energy is not good for you.
Why hurting your own hands if you can use tools to make beating more efficient?
Henry Kissinger deserves that personal touch.
I'd rather cut Sam Altman's hands off and use them to beat him to death while screaming "stop hitting yourself, Sam! Stop hitting yourself!"
What was the original quote?
Came to ask the same thing.
Once you've been to Cambodia, you'll never stop wanting to beat Henry Kissinger to death with your bare hands.
Damn, that's also true.
Fortunately Kissinger is dead!
Unfortunately, Altman is still alive.
Fortunately Kissinger is dead!
Someone really should go check on Kissinger to make sure he's dead. Kissinger gave me massive lich vibes.
Don't worry, I found the phylactery.
This is America best Altman twice once for him once for Henry
That's it. Hardly comparable with someone having to wait for the price of RAM to come down is it?
I bought a new laptop with 16 GB of DDR5 (8 GB soldered and 8 GB socketed) as it was super cheap for an 8840HS, and was planning to buy a 48 GB SODIMM for 120€ but held off on it for multiple reasons, thinking "it can wait and I can make do with less memory for now"
Yeah that 48 GB stick now costs 500€ which is just 50€ short of the entire laptop...
This too shall pass - we can hope that now there is both a massive revenue opportunity in the server market as well as an abandoned consumer market ripe for the taking, some enterprising manufacturer is going to look into filling this niche. Probably someone out of China, or maybe even India if they can get their shit together in time.
I have 128g of Corsair ddr5 I am saving to pay for my sons tuition in 15 years.
I mean I would still wanna do that even if it reduced costs to like $300 for a fully spec'd dream system.
Even if it cost me $300 per hit, if stop turn him into a vegetable. That'd be the best money ever spent.
I appreciate the juxtaposition between your username and this comment wanting to beat one of the universe's most useless life forms.
I just had a different comment this week where the name was accidentally relevant. Now I have one where it's so backward. xD
wait until the bubble crashes and we have tons of ram in the pipeline with no dedicated buyers
Hope you can use ECC in your boards, otherwise it'll be worthless
Homelabbers of the world rejoice
It's not even ECC, OpenAI bought up unfinished wafers that still need work to become proper RAM just so that others can't have it.
It will just not get made.
FFS Altman.
I saw 32GB of DDR4 RAM at best buy the other day for around 400 bucks. Which wasn't adding up for me at all but ok
JFC I upgraded in July to 64gb because it was on sale for $160
Do it!
Aaaaaa
Sam Altman has nothing to do with the current RAM shortage. Moreover, this is not the first RAM shortage. It also occurred during the earlier crypto-mining boom, and at that time no one was having public meltdowns trying to hunt down the inventor of Bitcoin.
The reason there is a RAM shortage is straightforward, the manufacturers that control the majority of production have chosen to sell primarily to a single industry because that is where the highest margins currently exist. From a financial standpoint, they have little incentive to sell to anyone else.
If you are looking for accountability, direct it at the large corporations that are deliberately allocating supply to maximize profit. They are the ones shaping the shortage, not individual tech executives.
Now, who could be in charge of the company most well known for needing absurd amounts of RAM to make their product work?
Who goes around making hundred billion dollar deals to ensure their business has access to massive datacenters filled with GPUs that need 2000GB of RAM?
Whose company recently wanted to buy 40% of all RAM on the market, and got a letter of intent from major RAM producers who were willing to supply it, assuming they got paid?
Oh, right! SAM FUCKING ALTMAN! You're right that RAM producers are currently profit-maximizing openly and nakedly, but to call him blameless would be naive and just wrong. They wouldn't be doing so, at least not to this degree, had ChatGPT and LLMs not become the hottest new scam bubble tech industry through his actions.
Sam Altman put in an order for RAM. A company is willing to supply it. That company is souly responsible for how they distribute their product. They could only supply them with a small portion of the order and be fair about it but they choose not too. 🤷
Yes Altman is not blameless but he's also not responsible.
There's also a hard drive shortage :-/
Normally, I think killing a CEO will cause no good because they're so replaceable, but I could make an exception and celebrate Sam's death.
At least until I have to look at 500 Tankie posts trying to convince western teens and facebook uncles to worship the killer.
Disagree because they would behave differently if there was consequences
Like when Brian Thompson was killed and his vice president took over the reigns within the hour? Like when they continued denying claims at record rates using AI? Fact of the matter is, somebody got rich off that guy dying, these sort of events won't make the rich less greedy, it will enable and embolden them so that only the most violent rise to the top.
I don’t think it’s tankies doing that.
It's not only Tankies but I'd wager it's a majority Tankies. Anything to promote western violence and the loss of engagement in the political process.
right, but have you considered that (targeted!) terrorism works?
No. Not one single time have I ever considered that.
Perhaps if it were a resistance to a fascist regime, but CEOs aren't a fascist regime they're just players in the game that voters have created.
Tankie here. Marxists-Leninist don't condone stochastic violent acts during capitalism against Capitalists, the word we use to refer to such tactics is "adventurism", and it's criticized heavily.
He's telling the truth for once. MLs don't believe that workers should have agency over their lives or the revolution. They only condone violence against capitalists if leadership ordered them to. They're very much a top down belief system hence the "Tankie" part: ie enforcing political orthodoxy with the threat of violence against the workers.
They only condone violence against capitalists if leadership ordered them to
No. We just believe that adventurism isn't a good tactic in bourgeois dictatorship, and we distinguish it from repression of capitalists by the dictatorship of the proletariat, i.e. by the state democratically representing the workers in power.
Then you don't support Russia, China, or North Korea and you're not a tankie, or you do support those entities and you're lying about their activities, in either scenario that's bullshit.
What do Russia, China or the DPRK have to do with stochastic acts of violence against capitalists?
If you're a Tankie
You support Russia, China, and The Dictatorship of North Korea.
That's like the definition of the word.
That's your definition. To me, it means essentially "Marxist-Leninist who supports actually existing socialist projects". I still fail to see what my views on some countries have to do with adventurism.
lmfao go search it
You're not wrong that they support those countries but you haven't explained how that's pertinent to the topic at hand.
Because China, Russia, and North Korea run psyops that either directly or indirectly harm western nations, such as by endorsing, and in some cases funding and arming, people who oppose or disadvantage the governments and peoples in those nations in any way and by doing anything in their power to decrease credibility and trust of those nation's governments.
Examples: China used its TikTok military op not only to collect and categorize americans (and other nations) but to directly endorse Donald Trump for president, followed by the largest shift rightward in young voters ever recorded. China wants Anarchy in the west, China wants an opportunity to grow their own borders unchecked and become the dominant global superpower.
China wants Anarchy in the west
Anarchy isn't a synonym for Chaos
It is a synonym for a weakened governing body, though.
Unless China is pushing for community gardens, and mutual aid drives in the West, lets try a different word.
They pushed for Donald Fucking Trump, mate. You should try some different words.
China wants the USA to have a revolution, and the bloodier the better, and in the end they want a loyalist installed as the new leader(s).
And Donald Trump is the extreme opposite of an Anarchist.
Oh, ok, so it's all communal gardens, then? Huh? Is that right, is that all China is pushing for? By getting Trump reelected China harmed the credibility of the USA federal government and pushed it towards lawlessness, it's called accelerationism and it's the preferred political ideology of selfish assholes with zero empathy which includes a very large number of anarchists.
Trump also happens to be the most deregulatory president potentially of all time, by attempting to overrule the constitution itself and him and his followers are constantly cooing over abolishing income taxes entirely.
Is that right, is that all China is pushing for?
Are you playing dumb? Being snarky? China is pushing for chaos in the west.
I think I understand, you're not implying that what they want is related to communal gardens, you're simply in denial of how the anarchist movement can be misused by them.
I'm saying that alot of people use the word "anarchy" to imply something akin to a riot; total chaos rather then what it is: a political movement opposed to hierarchy. The powers that be, approving of hierarchy and being opposed to anarchy encourage this incorrect use of language.
We've already been over that, I've explained that China indeed opposes Hierarchy in the West until they have an opportunity to make their own.