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If you think tanking Trillions in investments, warming the earth and increasion ocean water levels, creating water shortages and brown-outs is "good for all of
by einpoklum 2mo ago
If you think tanking Trillions in investments, warming the earth and increasion ocean water levels, creating water shortages and brown-outs is "good for all of us" - well, the rest of us beg to differ.
- throwaw12 2mo agothese GPUs make computation faster, I understand as of now maybe all the computation is used to generate yet another junk LinkedIn post or unnecessary RFC, but at some point this craze should settle and we will be left with powerful computation machines, which can be used for computing more useful things
- cmrdporcupine 2mo agoThe GPUs being paid for w/ billions in investment will be obsolete and e-waste in a few short years same as a Cray-2 was just a decade after its release. It's fine if you're one of the people selling shovels to gold miners for a while, but sucks to be building houses in the boom town?
- throwaw12 2mo agoI am not selling shovels, I just like to see when there is real competition on the market and I hate regulatory capture what Anthropic is trying to do for models, because they are scared of Chinese open weight models. In terms of GPUs whole world with 8B people have only couple of viable options: Nvidia, AMD, Intel - and largest part of their inventory is going to enterprises to run those LLMs, and its impacting every consumer / hobby projects, like cheap phones, DIY electronics projects and so on. I want to have more alternatives on the market