Yeah, I do. For two reasons.

1. Buildout will start to slow down when the speculative investment slows down. Which is going to happen. None of the big ai companies are actually making money yet, and even if they were, eventually growth will start to level off. Investors are always looking for the next big thing, so once AI isn’t the shiny new thing, the magic investor money will start to dry up.

2. Even if demand continues as it is, more memory will be manufactured. China is already producing memory, and I’m expecting them to scale fast. Also other countries and regions are realizing how important tech independence is, so I expect we’ll see more fabs pop up at least in the EU and US. One of the big reasons we’re in this mess is that the Korean fabs have been hesitant to expand production because even they don’t expect this to last.

I wonder if we’re going to see a console generation with expandable memory for the first time since the N64.

Would make some sense if the current climate persists for a few more years. Sell variants with multiple ram configs at different price points, and when ram prices come down you can wack a ram stick/module in there.

Obvious problems: consoles usually use unified memory, which probably won’t really work with expandable storage, so would need a different architecture. Also, if they use non-standard dimms, it’s unlikely the manufacturers would drop prices of those modules anywhere close to the actual amount of theoretical ram price drops. And this would require cooperation with game developers to make games that work with different ram configs, and give a tangible benefit for having more ram, without breaking compatibility for the base model units.

Can you find any sources supporting that?

Everything I’ve come across from this millenium says otherwise. I found this article from Harvard Magazine from 2003 that talks about the archeological findings

There’s good evidence that the people that built the pyramids were not slaves, but mostly skilled seasonal workers. There is evidence of the workers having luxurious foods and decent housing in something akin to dormitories. Seems like it’s still unknown if everyone was paid in actual coin, or if some or many were doing it more for religious purposes and were just treated to good food and accommodation while they were there, though some pay rates for some workers have been found in writing. But it does seem like they were mostly rotating crews rather than people living and working there for the years or decades it took to complete them.

If they were slaves, they probably would have been there long term, and not afforded those luxuries.

Wish I had a convenient source for all that, but it’s probably buried in academic journals and papers, but this bbc article includes some of it, and I have found some terrible ad-ridden articles mentioning pay rates and such. I just remember some of that from watching YouTube videos/documentaries tbh

From this Davie504 video

Framework catching strays with that thumbnail

Unless they’re super aggressively pro-ai and I just haven’t heard that.

Art vs science, many such cases. Decent band, too

Almost certainly a bit of performance art. Makes for some interesting imagery, and provocative enough to be posted and discussed here. So he’s done well.

Not that I know of. But Brave blocks YouTube ads on iOS. I know brave is somewhat problematic, but options on iOS are limited

As funny as that is, something tells me it’s not that hard to spot an aircraft carrier in the Mediterranean

That image is hard af

Jealous yours works. The battery on my 1st gen 2gb bloated and killed the screen. But apparently there was a recall on them years before, so I sent it in to apple and they sent me a 7th gen 16gb, which I still use. At the time it just felt like an upgrade, but now I kind of wish I just fixed the 1st gen