On: GPUs Go Brrr

[behnamoh]

tangential: When @sama talks about "Universal Basic Compute" (UBC) as a substitute for Universal Basic Income, obviously he means GPU, right? Who's going to benefit from such policies? Only nvidia? It just seems such a dystopian future to live in: imagine you can sell your UBC to others who know better how to use it, or you can use it to mine bitcoin or whatever. But all the compute is actually created by one company.

There are many reasons to hate nvidia, but honestly if this UBC policy is even remotely being considered in some circles, I'd join Linus Torvalds and say "nvidia, fuck you".

[jra101 → behnamoh]

You're blaming NVIDIA for Sam Altman's dumb idea?

[WanderPanda → jra101]

One's "dumb idea" is another marketers "genius stroke". Seems like he is playing the media puppets while he can

[behnamoh → jra101]

nvidia's CEO literally keeps saying "the more you buy GPUs, the more you save"—it's hard to believe nvidia has nothing to do with such ideas.

[coffeebeqn → behnamoh]

GPU CEO wants to sell more GPUs? What on earth

[WanderPanda → behnamoh]

Him saying this always puts me off. Gives hard old sales-guy vibes. I really wonder who/which demographic is influenced in nvidias favor by this rethoric.

[callalex → behnamoh]

You’re looking for logic. The only logic is “when a sucker buys WorldCoin, sama bank account go brrrr”.

That’s the whole logic.