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  • They had trouble increasing memory even before this AI nonsense. Now they have a perverse incentive to keep it low on affordable cards, to avoid undercutting their own industrial-grade products.

    Which only matters thanks to anticompetitive practices leveraging CUDA’s monopoly. Refusing to give up the fat margins on professional equipment is what killed DEC. They successfully miniaturized their PDP mainframes, while personal computers became serious business, but they refused to let those run existing software. They crippled their own product and the market destroyed them. That can’t happen, here, because ATI is not allowed to participate in the inflated market of… linear algebra.

    The flipside is: why the hell doesn’t any game work on eight gigabytes of VRAM? Devs. What are you doing? Does Epic not know how a texture atlas works?














  • This absolutism is jarring against your suggestion of applying the same technology to medicine.

    Siri predates this architecture by a decade. And you still want to write off the whole thing as literally useless if it’s ever ever ever wrong… because god forbid you have to glance at whatever e-mail it points to. Like skimming one e-mail to confirm it’s from your mom, about a flight, and mentions the time… is harder than combing through your inbox by hand.

    Confirming an answer is a lot easier than finding it from scratch. And if you’re late to the airport anyway, oh no, how terrible. Everything is ruined forever. Burn your computers and live in the woods, apparently, because one important e-mail was skipped. Your mother had to call you and then wait comfortably for an entire hour.

    Perfect reliability does not exist. No technology provides it. Even with your prior example, phone alarms - I’ve told Android to re-use the last timer, when I said I wanted twenty minutes, and it didn’t go off until 6:35 PM, because yesterday I said that at 6:15. I’ve had physical analog alarm clocks fail to go off in the morning. I did not abandon the concept of time, following that betrayal.

    The world did not end because a machine fucked up.