I am hoping we get an administration that will not accept his bribes so he can finally be held accountable for criminal negligence and fraud.
I just racked some consumer GPUs in my garage (6x r9700s), cranking 24/7 pumping 20M+ tokens a day towards my goals building compilers, custom operating systems, reproducible build debugging, kernel hardening, novel confidential compute tech... harder problems than anyone I know using cloud LLMs to solve.
I have still never paid for tokens AND have session privacy.
You're very right to be wanting to use open sourced models. You're delusional for thinking that buying your GPUs directly saves any money. You are not a cloud service provider, don't act like one.
Also, $1200 for a GPUs that can produce ~7M tokens a day of Qwen 3.8 27b at 80tps is faster and cheaper than any major provider can serve a model of that class as far as I am aware. Pays for itself pretty fast.
You're right people don't need the subscription, they just need a far more privileged life. One were dropping $12k instead of $20-100 a month is an equivalent financial strain.
Sam Altman can be a bad person (ask his sister about him!) and deserves to go down yada yada without us needing to try to kill the goose which is about to fling us into a golden age.
I prefer not to be flung.
Disagree. Even if OpenAI didn’t exist, this problem would still exist. It is best to assume and guard against rogue AI, which is what the essay is about.
Of course we don't NEED to pay for the cloud, but my company is doing this for me and I can't quite justify spending even 4-5K on a compute cluster in my garage, as much as I would love to.
andsoitis•35m ago
Discussion of Ronan Farrow’s New Yorker article (900+ comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47659135