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- mindwokIMO his comments are blown way out of proportion. He says "from a global allocation perspective" it's better to have RAM in the cloud where it can be used much more efficiently. I think there's an argument to be made that this is more than just economics to most people, it's about ownership and freedom, but he's clearly just talking economics.
- bstsbthe ridiculous "no ad blocker" full-screen modal that's unclosable led me down a rabbit hole there - turns out there's some obfuscated script from "Ad Shield" which replaces the whole site with an iframe if you dare to block their domain, "html-load.com", which proxies ad networks.fortunately one can just run debugger; to stop it early
- hoshWe’ve had this idea before.Back in the 1800s, we had this idea called Manifest Destiny. There was a famous painting about it, _American Progress_, painted by John Gast in 1872. It depicts Columbia, bringing civilization and liberty - telegraphs and railroads - for creating a great nation. It was devastating for the Native Americans.https://youtu.be/HCZmBMo_jhMSimilar ideas now, though it doesn’t have broad support. People are angry and fighting back against data centers.
- Tiberium
- e2leI would hesitate to say the memory used by the filesystem cache is unused.
- badgersnakeI didn’t think we’d get to the point where all compute is headed for the data centre and normal people don’t get to have anything bigger than a phone but here we are.
- ChrisArchitect
- rvzJust what is the point?
- ErroneousBoshI have no unused RAM; if any shows up I spin up some nested Alpine VMs. I got 20 layers deep the other day.Fucking Cry Harder, AI bros.
- tomcatfishIs this a script-kiddy DDOS (when many users run it) of someone's email? This doesn't seem very HN.Edit: No, the email is blank, so it's just a regular DOS, unless his email is public somewhere and everyone will fill in the same email. Still not very HN, but just bad, not malicious.
- JamesbeamAll your RAM are belong to usI am an old-school guy. I don’t send them emails with unused RAM, I just fax them a printout of the script so they have to physically look at it and remove it before it goes in the trash. Bonus points if you send it to legal. Legal always has a fax machine.With what people at OpenAI make per hour, every fax costs them thousands of dollars in labor costs, wasting all their precious resources one toner cartridge at a time in the process.I am just making proper use of all that underutilised toner.
- altcognitoWhat are the chances that they already do this :) Well, probably not given how much memory the harnesses use. (Claude too in fairness)
- shevy-javaI think Sam owes us money.Also - this will probably age as well as Bill Gates and the 640kb statement, which he never stated in that way, but will forever be linked to him.Sam RAM-boy Altman. Or Sam-RAM-man.
- dmitrygrI am sad that it is not configured to actually email him by default
- realist_notWouldn't unused RAM infuriate him more ?
- Zetobal[dead]
- neyaSo, the guy who built an AI company that thrives on your personal information to sell you ads and your idea of fighting the said guy is voluntarily emailing him everyday more personal information?
- leecommamichaelIsn’t this kind of an illegal crowd-sourced DDoS?
- senordevnyclol, it’s so funny watching the cynical AI haters whip yourself into a frenzy over this. I bet 99% of you didn’t even listen to this podcast episode. His comments were so anodyne, y’all are ridiculous.EDIT: lmao, and now people are going through my history and rage-downvoting things. Imagine being this fragile.