Techdirt analysis reaches Hacker News front page
8 Nov 3 6:32 AM · 5d ago · 6 articles · 8 posts · 14 comments · 4 sources · development 8 of 8
The Techdirt critique was resubmitted and gained traction on Hacker News, continuing the discussion two days after the original remarks went viral.
Sam Altman OpenAI CEOOpenAI AI company led by AltmanCheeky Pint YouTube channel that conducted the interview
Mike Masnick Techdirt founder and author of the analysis piece
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Reported in the same hours no headline names this development itself — these 7 claims were published in its stretch
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first by TheGamer, 4d ago · also IGN, The Verge
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first by HN Frontpage, 5d ago · also Times of India, Techdirt
1 more headline
- Sam Altman sees a better use for your PC's RAM, and it has upset many Americans Times of India · 3d ago
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first by Business Insider, 4d ago
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first by Tom's Guide, 4d ago
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1 outlet Sam Altman Pulls Spectacular 180 After Unpopular Comments About RAM: ‘It Is F**king Annoying’
first by Kotaku, 4d ago
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first by Mastodon, 4d ago
What people said 24 voices · best of 28 · verbatim
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He doesn't miss these things like gaming or edge cases... He's just talking specifically about how local LLM inference is not economical and he is right.Anyone choosing between a cloud provider vs local specifically for an LLM has likely noticed this already.Anyone interpreting this as "Altman wants to take DRAM away from me" or "Altman doesn't…
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「サム・アルトマン氏、RAMに関するコメントに反論：「人々は自分のコンピューターに好きなだけRAMを搭載すべきだ」 /OpenAIのCEOは、X上で自身の名前を「Ram Altman」に変更し、「皆さんにたっぷりのRAMを手に入れてほしい」と述べた。 」： # TheVerge 「OpenAIのCEOであるサム・アルトマン氏は、選挙当夜、PC用RAMの購入に関する自身の立場を擁護した。彼は、別のユーザーのコメントに反応してX上でのユーザー名を「ラム・アルトマン」に変更し、「私は実際に、世界中に大量のメモリがあり、人々が自分のコンピューターに好きなだけメモリを搭載できることを望んでいます。そして、これが文脈から切り離されて取り上げられたのは本当に腹立たしいことです。私は長い間、世界中でメモリ生…
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Yes, and what was that part of the conversation about? Was it about taking away everybody's around and everybody shouldn't have the computers, or was it talking about supply chains?
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Sam Altman's argument about RAM utilization is reasonable on a first pass, but misses several key points:1. people aren't using (GPU) RAM [1] for just running LLMs (in the local model sense), they are using it for other things... games, system displays, other models (Text-to-Speech, Speech Recognition, etc.);2. being able to run models locally…
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🫠 Sam wants your RAM ｢ OpenAI has basically tried to corner the market on RAM, trying to lock up 40% of the world’s supply without even guaranteeing that it will follow through on the actual purchase orders. I mean, I think that alone would have at least some impact on the current price for RAM, wouldn’t it? ｣ https://www…
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His problem is that he doesn’t look at the human population as equals, but only as obstacles. He would not live in the conditions that the population would be asked to.
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The problem isn't efficiency itself, it's that he thinks he gets to decide it for everyone.Maybe frontier lab engineers, including CEOs like Altman, think that "AI is the most important and innovative technology, therefore people should follow our lead to get a better life", or something like that.Policymakers should listen to experts, but people…
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Sam Altman backtracks on RAM comments OpenAI CEO Sam Altman suggested last week that more of the world’s RAM supply should go to AI data centers. Now he’s walking that back. https://www. heise.de/en/news/Sam-Altman-ba cktracks-on-RAM-comments-11513200.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon # news
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Not really. If you actually go back and listen to or read his answer, you'll see that what he was talking about had nothing to do with how people taking his comment.
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I have been finding this quite weird, it seems that the real villany was in what was in Sam Altman's mind when he said something that is basically true.I have seen many explanations of what that was exactly, they are not all agreed on the bad thoughts were, but they are pretty much in agreement that it was a bad thing.It's like saying 'public…
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OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman briefly changed his name to "Ram Altman" while doing some damage control for suggesting that PCs outfitted with loads of DRAM were a waste of memory. https://www. pcmag.com/news/ram-altman-open ais-ceo-tries-to-defuse-controversial-memory-comments
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https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2017/03/20/a-wider-partisan-and-ideological-gap-between-younger-older-generations/
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Even putting aside the whole privacy and tuning debates - unless Sam is willing to sell us inference at something near the pre-constrained cost of directly owning the DRAM all he is advocating for is "don't be greedy guys, that's what I'm for. I can be greedy for you!". It's not actually efficient for people to pay huge markups on compute and…
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Well, that did not take long. The problem with 'sort of smart' people is that they say 'sort of smart' things as performance. But it's just performance. https:// futurism.com/artificial-intell igence/sam-altman-reverses-position-ram # SamAltman # ram
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Let's all get rid of our personal means of transportation as well, super inefficient to have cars and bikes and such parked for the majority of the time! Some people even buy houses that they're never in! Or they buy kitchen equipment they only use once a month! Or clothes that people only wear for parties! Why even own anything at all!I am pretty…
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Sam Altman just renamed to 'Ram Altman' after Midterms pivot: Did the AI bubble finally hit a wall? https:// tech.yahoo.com/ai/articles/sam -altman-just-renamed-ram-110135740.html crash baby crash
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Altman leaves out of this the fact that OpenAI has basically tried to corner the market on RAM, trying to lock up 40% of the world’s supply without even guaranteeing that it will follow through on the actual purchase orders. I mean, I think that alone would have at least some impact on the current price for RAM, wouldn’t it?Hes going to lobby the…
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So generous of him Sam Altman addresses RAM comments: People should ‘put as much as they want in their computers’ | The Verge
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It's really inefficient to let people have access to electricity too.Running all those lines, people don't even use it all that much.Much more efficient to put everybody into camps, and simply have the people take turns using electrical appliances operating at 100% duty cycle.Freight delivery speeds need to be brought down too, 35 MPH…
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Sam Altman: "I want you to have so much [RAM]" https:// futurism.com/artificial-intell igence/sam-altman-reverses-position-ram
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A problem of both the Altman post and posts that react on him is that they take efficiency/utility in absolute sense instead of in marginal sense.There is clearly high marginal utility of the first n GB of RAM in your computer, but then its go down probably faster than for RAM in OpenAI's datacenter. And the market just solves for the equilibrium.
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Sam Altman thinks the RAM in your PC would be better off in a data center. https:// itsfoss.com/newsletter/local-a i-weekly-8/
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How many houses owns Sam? How many rooms in those. Maybe he should let homeless people live in them when he's not there.Or maybe he should live in a one bedroom apartment.That would be way more efficient.
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Sam Altman changed his profile name to Ram Altman! https:// x.com/sama # OpenAI # AI
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