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by dawnerd 178 days ago
Same with Airbnb. Oh and Moviepass. Those were the days.
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I watched a friend of mine minmax Moviepass so hard. They were so doomed.
Except none of those cost structures are based primarily on a resource that gets cheaper over time.. a.k.a. compute.
Computer isn’t getting cheaper, growth right now is supply constrained to memory which if you haven’t seen the news recently…
Training is getting exponentially more expensive. And inference isn’t that cheap unless you can do it locally
The energy demand doesn’t decrease.