@0xblacklight Agree that many people are using them this way, but some of the most interesting problems require computation and simulation to answer. Those can't be solved with just storage?
@zachweinberg I think the case is that (a) AI development has externalities which the existing tax structure isn’t covering and (b) AI which replaces W2s with deductible opex is net negative for tax revenue.
@NathanpmYoung There's some irony here. If they're honest about their aspirations of effectively hollowing out the white collar economy, the public may conspire to prevent them from accomplishing it. If instead they say AI is just there to assist, they might actually pull off the hollowing.
@GergelyOrosz Getting these nonstop. The pattern of a crazy domain inconsistent with the text with obvious pitch really feels like something email hosts should be able to filter.
@GergelyOrosz I think they screwed up here but expecting status page updates to be an immutable ledger always puts an extra pressure on the oncall teams that they also need to be doing PR. I'd prefer real-time information that helps me make decisions as a client/customer.
My ancestors buried half their children. All mine are alive. My ancestors' house had a dirt floor. Mine is wood. I have indoor plumbing, I have hot water, I have never in my life hauled a full bucket half a mile and I probably never will. Do you know how rare it is, in human history, for small children to wear shoes? Mine have multiple pairs. I can speak to my relatives who live thousands of miles away, for free, at any time. Video, if we want video. With machine translation, if we speak different languages.
The original Library of Congress had 740 books in it. I have more than that. If I run out of books in my home my local public library has 350,000. If I want to take a hundred books with me on vacation, they all fit on a device that fits in my purse.
I have heat in the winter and AC in the summer and a washing machine and I have never, ever, ever had to scrub a dress clean by hand in the stream. I can look up recipes from more than a hundred different countries and I've tried dozens of them. I ride a clean and modern train across my city for $4, or take a robot taxi if I'm out too late for the train. I donate $40,000 every year to the cause of getting healthcare to the world's poorest people and even after the donations I never have to think about whether I can afford a book, or a pair of shoes, or a cup of coffee.
There is a great deal more to fight for, of course. I hope that our descendants will look back on our lives and list a thousand ways they're richer. Maybe we ourselves will do that, if some of the crazier stuff comes true.
But the abundance is all around you and to a significant degree you aren't feeling it only because fish don't notice water.
@KelseyTuoc@RFishBlueFish@AlexNowrasteh Seems like the offense should be "leaking confidential information" not "insider trading"? We shouldn't go out of our way to regulate prediction markets and introduce additional enforcement costs on taxpayers for what is a dubious business at best.
The obvious bull case for AMD is that software is the weakest moat. If the AI wave is bottlenecked on hardware, all of that energy and investment can be focused to solve these problems.
On paper, MI300X has many advantages compared to the H100/H200, but in practice AMD's hardware is effectively nerfed by their catastrophically weak software. TL;DR: out of the box you will not be able to use MI300X for ML/AI training.
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