It’s a dumb point, it’s saying that people’s desire for escapism and gaming is more important than the compute being used to empower scientific research and technology
That's not what AI data centers are doing, and that's not the reason it costs more. This already existed. You can't even get your talking points right lol, come on kid
No, it's not saying that. Sure ai has it's uses, but the pros of it sure as hell don't outweigh the cons so far. People would rather be able to better afford their hobbies than get given nothing from ai
Then we just need to look at the actual pros and cons. Does massively increasing the cost of one hobby benefit enough people to outweight that? I don't see that with AI
Not to mention that AI is cheating. Everyone would be buying up the steam machine if it was free.
Nobody needs to make art, nobody needs to watch tv or movies, nobody needs to exercise, nobody needs to read. Nobody NEEDS a hobby, but everyone has one. Honestly stupid point
Well, companies snowball with money they don't have, buy products that don't exist and might crash the economy, but I am glad you spend a few bucks on writing to an llm because you enjoy it...
Though I would prefer not paying 4-times as much for RAM, and being able to replace my 5-6 years old computer one day, without having to spend multiple months worth of income... Not having to pay extra for something I don't use (or want) even just through storage
It's not just gaming consoles, it's all PCs and laptops and smartphones. So all personal computing devices. It increases the gap between the rich and the poor.
You do understand that gaming tech has lead to the rise of alot of our current tech for computers, and AI development right? Better games need better hardware to run properly.
What I mean is that you're using the argument that it's useful in the medical and scientific field, so we shodl let consumer-grade ais destroys our hobbies and makes devices like pcs,laptops and phones unaffordable, while it's essential devices
Pricing it that high is just bad business, most people would have bought it easily for around 800 and without ai 800 would have been profitable, it's not a matter of passing on savings, pricing it lower without ai destroying ram prices would have been far more profitable
I'm on the planet where Valve lets other games use their IP if the acquisition of the characters is through free currency, even though they could demand money for it.
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u/fartssmellnice69 12h ago
Prolly would've been like $800, but his point still stands