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Re:Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startu... by cyanydeez on Saturday November 14, 2026 @08:11AM (#50496750)
You should call this belief "Effective Altruism: Founders Edition"

What you're describing is the belief that they'll always sell their GPUs for a profit, so it doesn't matter what rules of accounting they violate _today_ because they'll be effectively more valuable _tomorrow_.

The same way an effective Altruist will poison a town's water supply if it grants them billions of dollars in the future and allows them to buy the town bottled water at some interdeterminate point in the future.

It boils down to the belief over reality, and feelings over facts; essentially, you're saying "as long as their intentions were good (gpus for everyone), it doesn't matter how much they hurt everyone"

Re:Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startu... by georgeecollins on Saturday November 14, 2026 @08:24AM (#50496828)
No one is saying they broke a rule of accounting. Or, I haven’t seen anyone say how they violated GAAP rules. I think EA is dumb to but I don’t think that is the issue here.