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[tsimionescu]

Not that I'm advocating for this with RAM, but another tried and true solution for necessary goods with limited supply is rationing. This is what got everyone through WW2, for example.

[tjwebbnorfolk → tsimionescu]

Rationing works when there are alternative goods available. Spam instead of steak, in your example.

One of the most difficult shortages during WW2 was rubber, because there was no (known, at the time) comparable alternative.

With GPUs, rationing would have the same effect as a lottery -- you either get to run AI, or you don't.

[tsimionescu → tjwebbnorfolk]

Rationing works when people can make do with a small amount of something despite preferring a larger amount. In particular, food rationing was not about alternatives, but simply about restricting everyone's diet so that a limited food supply would be consumed more slowly without starving anyone.