The argument makes sebse for some things but not for others.
Take water bottles. Or mugs. Having 15 of them collecting dust in a drawer is suboptimal. Therefore no one should own one and rent it from a muglord.
There’s a balance to be found, and I’d say RAM is more of a commodity than cars are. The fact it’s not 99.999% utilized, unlike a certain someone’s wishes is a feature of life and not a bug of capitalism not yet being post late stage.
You can’t just have RAM sitting idle in your PC, you peasant. You use it, when you’re done with your pc, you take that RAM and give it to Sam. Next time you go buy another RAM and turn on your pc. Rinse and repeat. That didn’t make sense? Yeah, that’s how Sam’s argument sounded to me.
The RAM on your computer or phone has a limited number of cycles in its life. No one would want their car be driven while they aren’t using it, or strangers in their home while they are away. So Sam Altman can fuck off if he thinks he is entitled to use the processing in my phone or computer while I’m not using them
Um, I would absolutely let people drive my car if it was guaranteed to be back before I needed it? What?
The difference is that OpenAI isn’t offering a benevolent cooperative where they share the value evenly, they’re trying to corner the market to extract maximum profit.
The argument makes sebse for some things but not for others.
Take water bottles. Or mugs. Having 15 of them collecting dust in a drawer is suboptimal. Therefore no one should own one and rent it from a muglord.
There’s a balance to be found, and I’d say RAM is more of a commodity than cars are. The fact it’s not 99.999% utilized, unlike a certain someone’s wishes is a feature of life and not a bug of capitalism not yet being post late stage.
You can’t just have RAM sitting idle in your PC, you peasant. You use it, when you’re done with your pc, you take that RAM and give it to Sam. Next time you go buy another RAM and turn on your pc. Rinse and repeat. That didn’t make sense? Yeah, that’s how Sam’s argument sounded to me.
The RAM on your computer or phone has a limited number of cycles in its life. No one would want their car be driven while they aren’t using it, or strangers in their home while they are away. So Sam Altman can fuck off if he thinks he is entitled to use the processing in my phone or computer while I’m not using them
DRAM lasts almost indefinitely, you might be thinking of NAND (or nor) flash
Um, I would absolutely let people drive my car if it was guaranteed to be back before I needed it? What?
The difference is that OpenAI isn’t offering a benevolent cooperative where they share the value evenly, they’re trying to corner the market to extract maximum profit.