Luckily two and a half years ago I decided it was time for a new computer. I go more than a decade between new PCs so it was just really dumb luck that I got a new computer when I did. And the reason I can go so long between computers is because I always get way more RAM than I need when I get a new one.
So given the current state of things, it's a little awkward to admit how much RAM is in my computer.
It's because it's a Ponzi scheme. Huge amounts of investment dollars are being dumped into AI and anything related to AI. If you build any kind of chips that are used in AI datacenters, you suddenly have a bunch of money invested in your company. What do you do with it? You make a deal with OpenAI (or one of the other ones) that you'll invest that money into them if they agree to buy a bunch of chips from you. Now you have revenue on books and are showing a reasonable return on that investment.
If you were a chip manufacturer and actually believed that there was a big future in AI, you'd be using those investment dollars to build some more chip fabs. And some of these companies are doing that. But overall, moving money to another company so they will order chips for datacenters that aren't built yet (and may never be built) is just bubble ponzi shenanigans.
Computer hardware depreciates in value very quickly. You don't buy hardware today so you can install that hardware in a datacenter that won't be online for another year.
There were efforts to move down the anti-trust path when Biden was President. But too many Americans voted for a billionaire convicted of fraud, and all investigations into any billionaire disappeared and those that were already convicted of crimes were pardoned.
You can think it's my attitude that caused this but really it's ignorance that made things this way.
Yeah and Russia shares intel with Iran.
No longer a "system of laws not people" anymore. If it ever was.
It's owned by a corporation. Corporations have the rights of a person. But unlike actual people, you can't arrest a corporation.
Nobody goes batshit crazy over 69 or 420 tho. The reaction is just "heh."
67 would be fine if the reaction to it wasn't so cringey. You're reaction is no exception... you're pretending that "those old people are out of touch and just don't get it!"
Nah fam, we all completely get everything there is to know about 67. It's a dumb meme, there's nothing else there. 69 and 420 are also dumb memes, and we all know that too.
67 insists upon itself. It's a really lame thing to attach any significance to.
Can you type in "80 mph * 420 minutes in km" into excel and get an answer?
Using google is useful because it will understand the units, which can serve as a check. If the units match what you're expecting you know you got the formula right.
It's just that 67 is lame. It's a reference to some video so whatever, but the creepy thing about it is people are expected to laugh uncontrollably when they hear the number. And they do it because they have to do whatever social media demands of them.
The whole 67 thing is cringey.
Eh... it is the job of the CEO to promote the company and products they sell. And that's what he's doing there.
What concerns me more is how many people believe the obvious bullshit the tech bros say.
Hmmm... I use google to do math all the time. It's kinda nice, you can put units in and put the results in in the correct units.
I'm reminded of the episode of TNG where they trapped Moriarity in a simulation so he would think he had taken over the ship.
Maybe we can just have an internet just for billionaires where they have AI produce internet content so they can advertise useless AI products to AI bots run by other billionaires while the rest of us go on with our normal lives in the real world?