No one has all the cards and no one controls all the levers.

I'm as fanatical a free-market fundamentalist as you'll ever meet, but if someone were to argue that government has a role in preventing bullshit like OpenAI's unilateral 40% attack on the entire DRAM market, backed by nothing but funny money, I would have a hard time coming up with defensible counterarguments.

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bunderbunder 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I don’t really know much about how this stuff works, but I have a feeling we wouldn’t even have to do anything punitive. We might just need to find and close whatever weird loophole allows the folks who are participating in this gold rush to feel confident enough that they’ve externalized their risks to be willing to engage in speculative data center buildout projects on such a grand scale in the first place.

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rangestransform 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Apple used to do the same thing with TSMC’s newer process nodes, and nobody really complained because people were getting superior products. I happen to like US antitrust enforcement that considers consumer benefit primarily.

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pfdietz 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Your attempts to insult what they are doing doesn't show they did anything wrong, but it does impeach the validity of your own argument.

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CamperBob2 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Hit dog hollers, sounds like.

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pfdietz 2 hours ago | parent [-]

That's abuser logic.

	▲	CamperBob2 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The funny thing is, we're mostly in violent agreement, going by your other comments. This is a weird point to disagree on... so weird, in fact, that it's easy to believe you are associated with OpenAI. Hence my follow-up comment. What Altman did, and the way he did it, was not OK. Unless you believe that humanity's adoption of AI-based intellectual work is best served by concentrating an enormous amount of power in one company at the expense of everyone else, turning the market into a literal zero-sum game. Do you?