The quote wasn't weird and made total sense in Altman's POV. It was just egoistic and myopic regarding how people feel about ownership and independence.

It has nothing to do with his POV or even ego. It was an objectively true fact. GPUs in data centers do get more utilization than those used locally. That's all he was saying.

Something can be a true fact and still be an ill-advised or tone deaf thing to say.

Especially when you take into account that people are largely unconcerned about true facts, and will gladly misquote or misinterpret you just in order to be outraged.

It wasn't ill advised or tone deaf, it was taken by the media out of context. You can't take stuff completely out of context and then complain that it's tone deaf.

Is it really "all he was saying" when he's single handedly responsible for creating a worldwide RAM and NAND shortage?

Single handedly? I'd say the the people using (or forcing others to use) the models, therefore justifying the need for them, play a part in it.

Yes, he is solely to blame: https://www.mooreslawisdead.com/post/sam-altman-s-dirty-dram...

He said/implied that we would have shortage either way (without data center buildout, but everyone who wants access to LLM does private/local inference), which doesn't sound far fetched.

This is techno utilitarianism.

Also, a lot of things are true but what truths you choose to broadcast can tell us what you care about. E.g it's also true that we'd all be richer if sam altman shared is wealth with us, lets take a few seconds to think why he's not saying this truth, after all it's an objectively true fact.

You can think whatever you want about the guy, but when you willfully misinterpret his words because it fits with your view of what he secretly believes anyway, I think that's still a bad thing for you to do.

Sure, he wasn't implying anything. He just recited this fact completely out of context and wasted airtime.

And engines in busses objectively get more utilization than the combustion engine in your vehicle.

The whole context of Sam Altman and other tech billionaires is weird.