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by windexh8er 28 days ago
No. This is a ridiculous take on the recklessness Altman and Amodei have stated. Both men flat out lied, kept lying and continue to lie about their numbers and capabilities. They have literally destroyed markets that aren't coming back anytime soon (consumer hardware). They should be held accountable, not let off the hook like "Oh well, they fucked our economy long term. Guess they're just human."

Literally fuck them and an oversimplification like this.
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ajam1507 27 days ago
> They have literally destroyed markets that aren't coming back anytime soon (consumer hardware)

Ram is more expensive it's not the apocalypse for consumer hardware.

> "Oh well, they fucked our economy long term. Guess they're just human."

Not sure what this is a reference to.

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ChiperSoft 27 days ago
Thats not what the consumer hardware companies are saying

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyQwAhppWj8

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ajam1507 26 days ago
I'm not going to watch a 3 hour video, but custom PCs are a tiny fraction of the consumer hardware market. Also, the custom PC market is struggling partly due to people overstating the price of RAM. It's not like the cost of building a PC has doubled. RAM and SSDs were typically some of the least expensive components in a complete build. Looking at prebuilt PCs from iBuyPower, a pre-built that would have cost $2000 last July now costs a whopping $2100 with the same components.
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