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The Painful Truth: The RAM Crisis Is Only Just the Beginning

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  1. bigglebear · · focus · HN ↗
    I think it's time we start talking about putting limits on how much compute AI companies can purchase or own, relative to the rest of the world. It's not fair that they can use trillions of dollars of investor billionaires money to consume all of the resources that everybody needs. Where is fair distribution? What about all of the industries they're destroying in the process by hoarding it all for themselves?

    Otherwise, there will be no end to this. There are no hard limits on the speed of a parallel bruteforce. It's an infinite complexity problem class. The more parallel bruteforce power you have, the more likely you are to be able to solve a problem. So there is no world where demand ends. So if something isn't done about this, we'll have million dollar GPUs and RAM sticks because they've priced everyone out of the market and are the only ones able to afford them. Say goodbye to owning your own hardware at that point.

    1. ollysb · · focus · HN ↗
      How could you enforce this?
      1. bigglebear · · focus · HN ↗
        That's the entire point of having the discussion. Figuring out how to enforce it.
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