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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Taking over for Gerard this time. Special thanks to him for starting this.)
Are they trying to imply that when they will make it cheaper by shoving it everywhere? I honestly canāt see how that logic is holding together
as I read it, itās an attempt at reference to economy of scale under the thesis āAI silicon will keep getting cheaper because more and more people will produce itā as the main underpinning for how to reduce their unit economics. which, yāknow, great! thatās exactly what people like to hear about manufacturing and such! lovely! itās only expensive because itās the start! oh, the woe of the inventor, the hard and expensive path of the start!
except that doesnāt hold up in any reasonable manner.
theyāre not using J Random GPU, theyāre using top-end purpose-focused shit thatās come into existing literally as co-evolution feedback from the fucking industry that is using it. even some hypothetical path where we do just suddenly have a glut of cheap model-training silicon everywhere, imo itās far far far more likely to be an esp32 situation than a āyeah this gtx17900 cost me like 20 bucksā situation. even the āconsumer high endā of āsure your phone has a gpu in itā is still very suboptimal for doing the kind of shit theyāre doing (even if you could probably make a great cursed project out of a cluster of phones doing model training or whatever)
falls into the same vein of shit as āa few thousand daysā imo - something thatās a great soundbite, easily digestible market speak, but if you actually look at the substance itās comprehensive nonsense
Yeah, I agree. I think that this argument that is made there is a false. The logic error imo is claiming this statement is true: things get cheaper as they get used more, therefore if we make it used more, it will get cheaper.
Could also be donāt worry about deepseek type messaging that addresses concerns without naming names, to tell us that a drastic reduction in infrastructure costs was foretold by the writing of St Moore and was thus always inevitable on the way to immanentizing the AGI, į¼Ī»Ī»Ī·Ī»ĪæĻĻĪ±.
The surface claim seems to be the opposite, he says that because of Mooreās law AI rates will soon be at least 10x cheaper and because of Mercury in retrograde this will cause usage to increase muchly. I read that as meaning we should expect to see chatbots pushed in even more places they shouldnāt be even though their capabilities have already stagnated as per observation one.