Fuck AI

When you zoom out and look at the bigger picture, this is just the latest instance of ever expanding credit being converted into assets, just like housing, and reflected in everything down to groceries.

The structural problem lies in the very fact that we have, since 1971 and the end of the Bretton Woods system, fiat currencies backed by nothing tangible or physical, allowing for limitless expansion and by extension inevitable devaluation.

That money has to go somewhere to avoid being eaten by the very inflation it created, holding onto a resource that can be infinitely replicated, like currency in our present system, is a guaranteed loss.

The goal of fiat fueled VC bubbles is never to generate immediate, honest profits from selling a product to consumers, the goal is asset inflation and capital preservation.

The system is not broken, it is in fact working exactly as intended.

Like the subprime housing bubble.

Why don't they do this for every product I wonder.

This has got to be what tulip mania felt like right? Like we all know this is going to end badly.

When you say it like that AI sounds like one big scam.

The real reason is that the people running those AIs that they put so much money into to get where they currently are are well aware that people can just run their own models locally and cut them out of the picture entirely so they are attempting to monopolize the hardware needed to run it under the guise of getting ready to expand into the future.

Though the storage I think is more about wanting to keep a log of each interaction with their model for training and other ways to profiting from it (openly or covertly).

Like the whole "ai output isn't copyrightable" benefits them because they can just straight up use whatever output their models generate and it will be perfectly legal.

Damn this just describes capitalism 101

DDR3 still works just fine

Been running that shit since 2009

Slots open still, 4 to go

32 gigs and I can buy mo'

I think Louis Rossmann said it right: https://youtu.be/WpPIW4aeeag?t=699

tl;dw: "Fuck you!" ..."You have them for Sam Altman, just not for me."

It's irrational because this is being driven by billionaire techbros who think AI will bring them immortality.

Reminds me of the Ankh Morpork Pork Futures Warehouse.

https://wiki.lspace.org/Pork_Futures_Warehouse

Bit ironic that the image is generative AI slop

… or is it?

How is it these days? I really need to build a nas and haven't checked prices in a few months.

... by doing things that are impossible.

well they are mathematically possible just not necessarily economically feasible

TBF, step 1 was to take a shit ton of equity and purchase the small house sized machinery to make the memory stacks that will never be used....

Tenet guys Tenet. Reverse Entropy.