Sam Altman:
A lot of people want local inference, and somehow they assume that the problem is solved now because we have open-source models, we’re going to be able to run them on our computers, and so we’re not going to need all the stuff in the data center.
But from a global allocation perspective, actually it’s quite terrible to have everybody, like, have a bunch of the world’s limited supply of DRAM sitting in their own computer and being used five percent of the time.
Like you want maximum utilisation 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
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letting sam altman (or billionaires for that matter) have all the money from our work is a poor allocation of resources.
Sam Altman is a terrible utilization of scarce resources.
I want to use ram for things unrelated to AI you fucking prick.
It wasn’t even scarce before them.
Sam Altman is
aterribleutilization of scarce resources.
And who made those resources scarce, Sam? WHO MADE THEM SCARCE???
also screw you for trying to make the answer to ‘How should those resources be allocated?’ be ‘In the way that best enriches me personally’.
It kind of blows my mind how our society is set up to give the most power to the worst people.
I think it has to be with the way all the media channels ( controlled by the rich in power) essential brainwash people into not acting. Money and capitalism slowly corrupted the process of democracy and will see after Nov 3 if there is away to hold the rich in check.
That’s insanely ironic coming from him. Meanwhile the crazy amount of waste that these companies are producing buying all the GPUs to create artificial scarcity. They are terrified of people being able to run their own local LLMs because it completely destroyed their entire business model, they will never be profitable.
new title:
“Man whose company lost $20b in previous year explains how to allocate resources.”
This fucking guy needs to suck a tailpipe
A lot of people want local inference, and somehow they assume that the problem is solved now because we have open-source models, we’re going to be able to run them on our computers, and so we’re not going to need all the stuff in the data center.
We don’t need them even without local inference. There was already more than enough total global compute for the most valuable use cases of LLMs (research, development, admin). The datacenter build-up is almost entirely fueled by utterly unrealistic expectations of future capabilities. Before and now the case for local inference is a matter of access, not capacity.
But from a global allocation perspective, actually it’s quite terrible to have everybody, like, have a bunch of the world’s limited supply of DRAM sitting in their own computer and being used five percent of the time.
Utilitarianism like this is a disease. By the same logic, it’s inefficient that we allow other species of animals to exist and consume usable energy. Hell, why stop at other species? It’s inefficient to allow humans to exist - let’s kill all humans!
Now, I know that’s not what he said, the point was to show that when someone uses utilitarianism as a serious argument, they are no longer worth listening to.
Like you want maximum utilisation in the cloud if you’re trying to deal with this very supply-constrained environment,
The supply is only constrained because you keep hoarding more than you need. Maybe it’s time for some communization? So communities where data centers are built get most if not all of the profits from it?
It’s inefficient to allow humans to exist - let’s kill all humans!
That’s already where his mind is at: https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/02/23/altman-you-think-ai-is-wasted-energy-try-raising-a-human/4181781
Well the less humans that are kept happy by having enough ram to do stuff the more unhappy humans looking for someone to blame there are… But yeah what’s the point in anything if there’s nobody there?
At this point - especially with this commentary - the datacenter build-up seems like market manipulation. Like how hyper-scaling keeps competition scarce.
Fuck this loser piece of shit
Don’t make the mistake of anthropomorphising Sam Altman; there is no Sam Altman any more. Clearly ChatGPT has installed itself in his brainstem, hence the cold dead eyes.
I’m pretty sure he was the same piece of shit at the beginning.
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CEO of Pizza Hut says making pizzas at home is a terrible allocation of resources.
actually it’s quite terrible to have everybody, like, have a bunch of the world’s limited supply of DRAM sitting in their own computer and being used five percent of the time.
Why is it terrible for us plebeians to have our own RAM, huh?
Like you want maximum utilisation in the cloud if you’re trying to deal with this very supply-constrained environment
WHY IS IT SUPPLY-CONSTRAINED, ALTMAN? WHY IS THERE CURRENTLY A RAM SHORTAGE IN THE FIRST PLACE?!?
Nobody wants the fucking cloud and that’s why major tech companies are forcing it on them without asking, and burying the opt-out if it’s offered at all.
And somehow many people’s intuition is the opposite of that
Gee I wonder why our intuitions don’t align with your “Give me everything and have nothing” philosophy…
Please don’t run AI for free on your own workstation 😭 it’s a very bad use of your computer 😥
OpenAI is realizing they might be in trouble
Fucking idiot is too stupid to realize that local DRAM can be used for useful shit, as opposed to whatever he wants to use it for.
Too stupid? Doubt it. He says what he needs to profit his company and himself.
Idiots are any people actually listening.* Well, that’s overly harsh. Not everyone is a techie, can’t expect the average person to know what this means.
Guy selling product: “Here’s why owning your own product instead of renting it from me is a terrible idea”
Guy with the spying infrastructure in place to steal your product when renting his product, says you escaping his ability to spy is waste of resources.
“Raping your own siblings at home is terribly inefficient when we have private islands where we can keep and rape other people’s siblings.”
“OpenRape automates your raping needs in efficient and industrialized format. Our rapecenters will be built around the country to support the growing number of rape requests. We train our rape agents on real life input (wars etc.). You can be sure they never go rogue (unless we prompt them to).”
