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flangola7
1128 days ago
What a tragic waste of human effort and potential.
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throwuwu
1128 days ago
Same thing was said about GPUs when they were just for games
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flangola7
1127 days ago
I don't remember that. Games are art and offer at least some benefit to the world. Optimizing Facebook attention algorithms harms society.
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throwuwu
1126 days ago
You must be Gen Z because the prevailing attitude towards video games of all kinds was mostly negative in the 20th century. They even tried to blame Doom for school shootings.
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flangola7
1125 days ago
I was born in 89. I'm talking about GPUs specifically, not just video games.
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fortyseven
1127 days ago
That, but the exact opposite. Games were the primary motivation for GPUs in desktop computers in the 90s.
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nikhilsimha
1128 days ago
I hope they take comfort in the fact that this is open-source.
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