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Re:AI is now capable of developing its own inference hardware by mestelan on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @07:27AM (#49991239)
What is FIRE here?
Re:AI is now capable of developing its own inference hardware by jcheng on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @10:14AM (#49993157)
Financial Independence, Retire Early. It's a whole subculture online, based around the idea that if you can grow your investments to ~25X your annual expenses, you can safely stop working and live off those investments.

https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/05/29/how-much-do-i-nee...

In some kind of economic AI apocalypse, though, who knows if the assumptions behind FIRE will hold.

Re:AI is now capable of developing its own inference hardware by throooooo on Sunday October 11, 2026 @01:41PM (#50045739)
We've had other "apocalypse" scenarios before (industrial revolution and manufacturing automation) where we successfully transitioned to a new way of living and being productive. The optimist in me says that there's nothing special about AI this time around.