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Sam Altman is actually right about this, and most people are missing the bigger picture.
Think about how much RAM sits unused in hundreds of millions of personal computers every single day. People buy machines with 16GB, 32GB, or 64GB of RAM, yet most of that capacity is barely utilized for much of the day.
Meanwhile, AI research, scientific computing, and cloud infrastructure are competing for the same limited global supply of memory.
From an economic perspective, this is an incredibly inefficient allocation of resources.
In a data center, memory can be pooled, shared, and continuously utilized by thousands of workloads. Instead of expensive hardware sitting idle for most of its lifespan, that same capacity can support services used by millions of people.
Higher utilization means more computing output from the same physical resources, potentially lower costs per workload, and less pressure to manufacture additional hardware.
This doesn't mean everyone should give up owning a computer. Local computing still matters for privacy, independence, latency, and offline access.
But the fundamental principle is correct: maximizing individual ownership of scarce hardware isn't necessarily the same thing as maximizing its usefulness to society.
The future of computing isn't just about who owns the most powerful hardware. It's about how efficiently we use the hardware humanity already has.
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Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The post includes leftover AI prompt text at the end, showing it was AI-generated. Author later called it ChatGPT bait.
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Everyone's focused on which company has the smartest LLM.
Google has spent nearly 30 years collecting signals about what humans actually want.
What we search, how we phrase questions, which results we choose, and how we discover apps.
The real AI advantage might not be knowing the answers.
It's knowing what people are trying to ask.
The moment you realize Mr. Clean is basically buying these things, repacking them, then charging an obscene markup
We have more information at our fingertips than any generation in history.
Yet decades of rising IQ scores appear to have stalled or even reversed in some countries.
How did we make information infinitely more accessible without continuing to improve measured intelligence?
I passed my PhD proposal defense today.
Officially a PhD candidate in Computer Science!
My research? Figuring out how to transmit electricity through SOIL using computational electromagnetics.
Yes, literally powering things through dirt.
Now comes the hard part: finishing the PhD.
With vulnerabilities like this PHP issue, public disclosure doesn't necessarily mean attackers are just discovering it.
Sophisticated botnets may have known about it long before the rest of us.
Disclosure doesn't create the vulnerability. It lowers the barrier for script kiddies to exploit it.
If you don't read this to your children as a bedtime story, we can't be friends.
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Guess the percentage of restaurants who now get spammed robo calls by grok bot that hang up immediately.