One is that it’s a more complicated part with tougher fab requirements.
Two is that it’s not a commodity. AMD can’t make nVidia GPUs. They have to design their own. Everyone has patents and trade secrets and copyrights. Patents expire and knowledge diffuses but that adds another time lag.
AMD and Intel are fully aware of the demand and are working on it.
RAM is a commodity. Totally interchangeable standard part. Also simpler to fab, thus quicker and easier to scale up.
Oh, and I’d like to add: everyone is afraid it’s a bubble that will pop. Nobody wants a bunch of stranded capex. That has also happened before many times. So that puts brakes on it too.
Post 2000s there has been a pretty fundamental change in the US economy. Things like rent and food were far cheaper. There was also a lot of potential income to be made by individuals by connecting buyers and sellers. Typically if you wanted to sell something like a car, you either went to a dealer that screwed you, or you put and ad in the local paper. If you watched around you could quickly buy cheap cars and turn them quickly for more than enough profit to make it worth while.
The internet quickly flattened this. First by pulling all the buyers and sellers on one advertising site it quickly turned into the fastest with the most capital won. Then the sites themselves figured out they should be the middle man keeping buying up the stock and selling it.
There has also been a huge consolidation to just a few players in many markets. This consolidation and many times algorithmic collusion has lead to the general ratcheting of prices higher. When you start adding things in like 'too big to fail' the market becomes horrifically unbalanced to large protected capital with unlimited funds from the money printing machine.
It's no wonder we quickly dropped ethics, most of us would starve to death in the system we've created.
People: "Trump, we should start moving away from ICE cars so we're less dependent on fluctuations on oil prices"
Trump: "Drill baby drill, electric windmills cause liberal bird testicular cancer"
Also Trump: "I am the peace president"
Also Trump: "So yea, I started a stupid war and gas prices are going to go way up, oh yea, and go buy a new 6 ton family sedan that gets 10 miles per gallon"
This has always been the thing. “Climate change is horrific and will kill millions. But let’s not build infill housing because that will ruin community character. Also let’s not build nuclear or wind because it will ruin views. Why yes I am an environmentalist from San Francisco”
If oil production totally stopped in the middle east for reason, our gas price would spiral out of control as we'd put oil/gas on large ships and the companies would export it for massive profits.
This is why it's important to have multiple means of transport fuels, you're less subject to market variability.
Between 2004 and 2008 I did many things in computing as a company that offered my services, one of these was information gathering automation. It almost never immediately lead to decreases in employment. The systems had a to be in place for a while, people had to get used to them, people had to stop making common mistakes with them.
Then the 2008 crash happened and those people were gone in a blink of an eye and never replaced. The companies grew in staff after that, but it was in things like sales and marketing.
Layoffs are very rarely directly correlated with a new technology coming into place. As much as businesses say they are forward looking and looking to increase profits, they'll commonly remain conservative until they are forced by external conditions, say a recession.
This is, if AI is going to cause job losses it will feel very small for some time, then it will happen suddenly all at once with little to no time to properly react.
No, it's "this tool cannot be used by bad guys or good guys, but can be used by highly funded labs that do neuroscience". It's something that freaks people out until they gradually learn what is actually involved
^ There's a research team at Meta that studies this. You need an MEG -- thats $2-5M + the shielded room it lives in and the experts that can operate it.
EEG doesn't work due to low spatial resolution and how finicky it is to place the electrodes to get a good signal
The signals from neurons are just unbelievably tiny and are in an absolute sea of noisy trash. No one is ever going to read your thoughts without your consent (or by wrestling you into a big MEG, in which case you have bigger things to worry about). No one is going to be reading your dreams with any sort of accuracy either.
So, the question I have is, could the reassemble the data from a person who has face blindness?
From my rather weak understanding on the subject, humans have a fast path for facial recognition over many other mammals. Some in some people this is otherwise broken or has been co-opted to fast recognize something else.
>Where you one that downvoted every post saying we should have unions in software so we can protect ourselves as a group
In other professions such unions inevitably end up building a chummy relationship with the government and going along with whatever it says, software engineering wouldn't be any different. If anything it'd be worse because the government could pressure the union into removing the license of engineers who make privacy-preserving software.
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