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by impossiblefork 32 days ago
Yes, and this isn't possible in a sustainable without a hardware-software carousel, which means that we must get EU AI hardware firms, including training accelerators.

The present situation must be seen as a sort of "keep alive" state, where we do something unsustainable until we can achieve takeoff, but we can only actually start up for real once we start making the machines we need.

If NVIDIA's margins were 20% or something, this wouldn't be the case, but they aren't.