Re:Sam Altman's Case Against Your RAM Is Efficient. That's t...
by xg15 on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @08:09AM
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> Altman talks about how they’re working on having robots build “self-replicating data centers” (what?!?)
Company that cautions against the paperclip maximizer already at work building the paperclip-maximizing hardware themselves.
Though I appreciate how this would invalidate the last remaining arguments for the "data centers bring local employment" claim, if the security and construction jobs are automated away as well.
Maybe it will be replaced with a new spin: "Data center? What data center? Oh that one... that's just a wild weed, you can't prove it's one of ours..."
Company that cautions against the paperclip maximizer already at work building the paperclip-maximizing hardware themselves.
Though I appreciate how this would invalidate the last remaining arguments for the "data centers bring local employment" claim, if the security and construction jobs are automated away as well.
Maybe it will be replaced with a new spin: "Data center? What data center? Oh that one... that's just a wild weed, you can't prove it's one of ours..."