Sam Altman says it's "terrible" that people have RAM in their PCs

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Bofferbrauer2 said:

curl-6 said:

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/openai-ceo-says-its-quite-terrible-for-your-pc-to-have-ram-sam-altman-says-data-centers-offer-better-utilization

"From a global allocation perspective, actually, it's quite terrible to have everybody have a bunch of the world's limited supply of DRAM sitting in their own computer and being used 5% of the time," Altman said. "You want maximum utilization in the cloud if you're trying to deal with this very supply-constrained environment. And somehow many people's intuition is the opposite of that."

Let me counter this:

"From a global sustainability perspective, actually, it's quite terrible to have all the tech bros have a bunch of the world's limited water supplies getting pumped their own data centers and getting used up 95% of their volume. You want maximum preservation of drinking water to deal with this very fragile environment. And somehow techbro's intuition is the opposite of that."

And

"From a global economic perspective, actually, it's quite terrible to have all those billionaires have a large bunch or the limited financial wealth sitting in their hoards and just being used 5% of the time. You want maximum money flow to keep the economy running in this very stagflationary economic environment. And somehow billionaire's intuition is the opposite of that."

Agreed; the really rich part too is when he talks about "this very supply constrained environment" and it's like YOU caused the supply constraints you prick.