I think he has a point, but doesn’t reach the right conclusion. RAM is in short supply and critical to a functioning country. As such, I propose that we nationalize all data centers.
Interestingly, normies who argue against nationalization of private property tend to say “commies want to nationalize my toothbrush”, etc. not understanding the difference between private property (data centers) and personal property (consumer-grade RAM, for instance).
So, funny enough, Altman is advocating for the cartoon villain version of communism where the centralized authority (Sam Altman) nationalizes your personal property (RAM).
Meanwhile, folks actually in favor of nationalization to reap the benefits of planned systems of production would not try to steal your RAM, but would take Altman’s datacenters for the public good.
Having oxygen in Sam Altman’s lungs is an inefficient use of the world’s limited air.
Altman drinking clean water, is just a terrible use of scarce natural resources.
Don’t get me wrong, having large amounts of RAM and lots of CPU muscle has made software terribly inefficient. An everyday user shouldn’t have to have more than 8-16 GB and perhaps 4 cores to get by. That said, wtf are we even talking about here? The solution to too little RAM is making more or using less. Memory is a commodity, not a privilige.
i would argue that os creep is a problem. 2-4 gb should be more than enough for 99.9% of usage.
gaming, or computational demanding jobs, need more. but for the majority of people, if it wasn’t for OS creep, 2-4 gb is enough
I’m not sure if the average Joe should get by with only 8-16 GB of RAM. This is only the case today because we off-loaded so much of our applications to the Cloud.
If we care about running our applications with our own devices and reclaim the ownership of our data we should advocate to be able to get as much RAM we want.
That is true of course, all I meant to say is that using a web browser shouldn’t demand more than 8 GB of RAM. On Linux, with zswap, you can probably get away with it. On Windows? Probably a horrible experience (the persistent horrors of Windows aside).
When do we start burning these folks alive?
Let’s not go to extremes, now.
Burning them dead would be just as good.
Aren’t they hoarding RAM in warehouses right now so their utilization is actually 0%?
If this becomes a Tulip Bubble, i will laugh.
You mean like the Tulip Mania of the 1600s?
I hope it’ll lead to similar art too 😁
A Satire of Tulip Mania by Jan Brueghel the Younger (c. 1640) depicts speculators as brainless monkeys in contemporary upper-class dress. In a commentary on the economic folly, one monkey urinates on the previously valuable plants, others appear in debtor’s court and one is carried to the grave.
hand over?? what is this? communism??
Hell no. If he wants my ram, he can buy it from me
$10,000,000. per stick.
Supply seemed to be just fine until SOMEONE tried to monopolize it. I’m sure there’s no correlation there though.
I should’ve read the title before posting I guess
Guy who allegedly sexually assaulted his sister says something profoundly stupid.
I’d rather it be like the guy in Leprechaun that wished for the pot of gold and it was put inside his stomach.
Yeah, RAM is only good for chatbots and has no other uses.
