Why would you buy and build everything before the low probability catastrophe strikes, though? You don’t get any benefit from switching early and you pay a big opportunity cost.

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Lapel2742 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> low probability catastrophe

There is also a low probability that someone enters peace negotiations solely to threaten the negotiators with death, yet here we are. With these guys it is: Better safe than sorry.

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inigyou 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

because as soon as it strikes computer hardware will be completely unavailable to buy?

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CamperBob2 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Also, there's a nontrivial learning curve involved in running your own inference server, once you move past the casual-goofing-around-with-llama-server stage. If you care about not being a sharecropper on Sam's or Dario's plantation, you should consider learning the ropes. Even if you don't put these skills to immediate use in your day job.

I didn't appreciate this until I started down that road myself.

	▲	matheusmoreira 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> If you care about not being a sharecropper on Sam's or Dario's plantation Couldn't have put it better myself. That's what all this comes down to. Owning the hardware, owning the inference. Not perpetually renting them out on a meter like in the dystopian future they're envisioning.

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OtomotO 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Because you will not be the only one struggling to get the hardware in the "unlikely" case the POTUS blurts out another fart.