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Re:OpenAI builds first chip with Broadcom and TSMC, scales b... by adventured on Tuesday October 29, 2024 @06:01PM (#41989874)
When you do something that stupid - starting at $7 trillion - you end the conversation before it really begins because you lose all credibility with the people that matter (eg TSMC and other investors).

If he had said $250 billion and six fabs, it would have been a lot to ask but people wouldn't think he was ignorant or irrational for saying it. Big tech for example has that kind of money to throw around spread out across a decade if the investment is a truly great opportunity.

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Re:OpenAI builds first chip with Broadcom and TSMC, scales b... by onlyrealcuzzo on Tuesday October 29, 2024 @06:05PM (#41989902)
Asking for $7T is - seriously - only slightly more absurd than asking for infinity dollars.
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Re:OpenAI builds first chip with Broadcom and TSMC, scales b... by lyu07282 on Tuesday October 29, 2024 @06:45PM (#41990199)
I guess he thinks his glorified markov chain will lead to ASI if scaled up sufficiently. Even if we get ASI, the likelihood that anybody will ever make any money from it is so delusional. This isn't going to be your average brainwashed peasant, crushing these capitalist pigs is probably the first thing it's gonna do.
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Re:OpenAI builds first chip with Broadcom and TSMC, scales b... by GaggiX on Tuesday October 29, 2024 @06:52PM (#41990248)
This comment honestly feels delusional.
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Re:OpenAI builds first chip with Broadcom and TSMC, scales b... by lyu07282 on Thursday October 31, 2024 @03:33PM (#42010594)
I guess a valid criticism is the idea that ASI would care about the ideologies of literal ants, or that it would be so alien that it doesn't even make sense to anthropomorphize it like that. But I guess the delusional part you got offended about was either the criticism of capitalism or to describe LLMs as glorified markov chains (which they technically are, look it up).
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Re:OpenAI builds first chip with Broadcom and TSMC, scales b... by coredog64 on Tuesday October 29, 2024 @08:03PM (#41990734)
The technical term for this is “zone of possible agreement”. If your opening is outside the counterparty’s ZOPA, then they’re likely to disengage/exit.
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