RAM Altman: Linux Script Emails Sam Altman Daily How Much Unused RAM in Your PC

Re:RAM Altman: Linux Script Emails Sam Altman Daily How Much... by godelski on Sunday November 08, 2026 @05:06PM (#50417880)

  > Everybody believes their interests weigh more

I don't. I believe I have to weigh my benefits to collective ones. Sometimes I do things that offer me no benefit whatsoever but does for others. Just the other day I offered to take a picture for a couple who was trying to get a selfie together. Last week I bought an intern lunch. Why? Because they were an intern (grad student) and I'm sympathetic to that.

Fun fact: I'm not a "rare outlier". People like me are pretty common and can be found all over. We usually just don't openly talk about it because we're not looking for a reward. I'm not speaking up now because I'm looking for self-gratification or anything. I'm speaking up to push back against your claims. I'm speaking up because we live in an increasingly selfish period of time. I'm speaking up because we're also at cultural turning point and many people are saying "enough is enough." I sure as hell don't care how rich you are, but I do give a damn about where the economic floor is. If you take from that floor to lift yourself up, I'm upset. If you do this to lift yourself when you already have more money than you could possibly spend in several generations? I'm furious.

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Re:RAM Altman: Linux Script Emails Sam Altman Daily How Much... by mindwok on Sunday November 08, 2026 @05:24PM (#50418057)

I believe you. I'd challenge you though to consider Sam Altman would make the same claim about himself. The difference between you is not that you are good and he is bad, it's that you likely have very different beliefs of what the "good" course of action is. He likely believes successful adoption of AI means advances in science, medicine, freeing people up for more meaningful things, etc.

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Re:RAM Altman: Linux Script Emails Sam Altman Daily How Much... by godelski on Sunday November 08, 2026 @05:49PM (#50418338)

Sure, most people don't view themselves as the villain of their own story, but that's not what my comment was addressing. My comment was narrower

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Re:RAM Altman: Linux Script Emails Sam Altman Daily How Much... by mindwok on Sunday November 08, 2026 @06:06PM (#50418557)

Fair, maybe I should say I think he wouldn't see his actions as taking from the economic floor, he would argue he is raising it. E.g. more effectively utilising resources (like RAM) means RAM is cheaper, which means more people can use it for their businesses and ideas.

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Re:RAM Altman: Linux Script Emails Sam Altman Daily How Much... by stinkbeetle on Sunday November 08, 2026 @06:47PM (#50418998)

Maybe a billion people would view you as having and owning and spending more than several generations of their families, maybe more. Yet you see wealth accumulation as a problem because there are those with much more than you. Are you the villain of your own story?

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Re:RAM Altman: Linux Script Emails Sam Altman Daily How Much... by stinkbeetle on Sunday November 08, 2026 @06:00PM (#50418476)

Well I congratulate you for finally having the courage to speak up about offering to take a picture for some people that's very commendable, but that doesn't really address what I wrote. I didn't say everybody weighs their own interests at 100% and everybody elses' at 0%.

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