AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots
Hopefully dirt cheap gpus and ram when the bubble bursts
Unfortunately most of the GPUs aren’t usable by gamers. We aren’t talking mining booms where miners buy up gaming GPU stock, then sell cheap when the bubble bursts.
We’re talking companies buying huge GPUs that don’t have video outputs and have an altered software stack to what’s used for gaming, missing all kinds of features and game specific patches.
Granted, many 4090/5090s were also used, and those will be usable by gamers, but even with a significant price drop on those, only richer gamers will find that to be viable.
Somewhat similar story for memory - a lot of it is tied up in HBM, or as GDDR on enterprise graphics cards.
I would pickup an inference GPU to run models locally. I can see a benefit in that especially if they’re on the cheap
don’t have video outputs and have an altered software stack to what’s used for gaming, missing all kinds of features and game specific patches.
True about those without video outputs. But in Linux, game specific patches are in Mesa and not in the graphics drivers for example.
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I’ll salvage me a cheap PC upgrade once this stupid ship finally sinks.
Hopefully some cheap hardware.
I wanted C3PO from the AI boon. Instead, I lost my job and was replaced by AI.
-Sci-fi nerds who were hopeful of the future and AI
Haven’t read the article yet but hopefully it’s cheap used drives
Why do people keep listening to this guy?
Because he knows his shit.
Sure but nobody important cares and he’s just repeating himself ad nauseum.
nobody important cares
And you’re sure of that because …
In most fairy tales, it takes more than one blow to kill the dragon…
and he’s just repeating himself ad nauseum
this is usually how you build mindshare of anything
This man has really built a career and following off saying common sense things…
I don’t know why people keep eating it up or acting like he’s a genius, but at least this time he isn’t coining a new term to “explain” something that leads to everyone using it but not understanding what’s actually happening.
He’s a good writer and leader on the technology front. He gets a bit repetitive but that’s because he is trying to get the word out.
What you might think is “common sense” may not be for others. There is value in this being documented, otherwise the person without “common sense” may be influenced by someone with an agenda who does document their thoughts.
Same as when people make fun of “obvious” research, there is value in having it peer reviewed as a reference for future researchers.
There is value in this being documented, otherwise the person without “common sense” may be influenced by someone with an agenda who does document their thoughts.
Oh yeah, because no one has “documented” that AI is bullshit yet…
Only the brave Cory Doctrow could gather and disseminate this to the masses!
/s
Timing. Saying common sense stuff before others gives you an edge and being the first to say it with any eloquence, in a way people want to listen and are accepting of what’s being said. A lot of what Cory Doctorow says can be hard to hear or hard to deliver without sounding condescending like NDT. His talent is in the delivery.
Saying common sense stuff before others
Yeah bro…
No one else has pointed out AI will fail before 1/18/26…
Only the great Cory Doctrow could identify something that no other human has ever even contemplated.
I heard next, he’s going to release a blog post that Nazis might not be nice people
