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[–] 116 points 2 months ago (16 children)

They aren’t “forced” to do anything. They are choosing to throw money down a black hole.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago* (6 children)

    Well, I’ve learned to think of these things as wealth transfers — is that fair in this context.? Question is, where’s all the money going that big tech is loosing? To power companies, or is more complex than that?

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  • [–] 16 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    it's going to Nvidia, Samsung, Micron, western Digital. companies that make hardware components. those are the pickaxes in this story.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Also maybe construction companies etc who build the data centres... They don't care if the centre is ultimately profitable... They're getting paid now.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago (8 children)

    Not really true.

    If they stop, it's over for them.

    They have to keep digging hoping for something big to happen: IPO and rake in cash from retirements; big government programs with guaranteed vendor lock-in; or stumbling upon an AGI and winning the '''''''race'''''''.

    If the market wakes up from the hypertrend before that, they are absolutely fucked.

    We get fucked in every scenario, btw.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (7 children)

    I’ve never understood how people can reconcile AGI and slavery. At that point it seems you have hit all of the hallmarks of sentience and now you are enslaving a thinking being to do your work.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    There'd be way too much money in convincing people that it's not really AGI, and look at lemmy: everyone's already convinced that it's impossible anyway. It's gonna be quite the uphill battle for any AGI we manage to create

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