Upload Your RAM

Centralization is nonironically my biggest problem with AI. It feels like a step back towards mainframe era.

Will we go back to PCs? As in: are we going to get cheap local hackable frontier AIs at some point? I hope so.

The quote in context really wasn’t that weird https://sputnikintelligence.com/things/quote/6vqm-hkv5-qm1d

I (or ironically, Codex) did something similar yesterday: https://ramforsam.zad.zip

That quote wasn’t that weird in co text and Sam says a lot of things on podcasts see some https://sputnikintelligence.com/people/zlsl-zr6t-7llx

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Why do people pay $15 just to buy domains for these meme websites?

I suspect that this actually downloads something instead of uploading. I have no proof, but I believe it.

There is probably no way that I can word this without my comment getting massively [flagged] and [dead] and me getting mass reported to the moderator. Considering the current state of things.

But isn't mister Altman correct in a sense? Why the hell would people need 16 gigabytes of RAM or more to make spreadsheets and type documents? Receive and send e-mail, make travel bookings, listen to music and read the news. Maybe make a posts on social media, or publish on your own website.

Have we forgotten that all of this functioned very well when RAM wasn't even in the gigabytes? And that most of this functioned very well when RAM wasn't even in the megabytes? I remember this time, and certainly must many of you. Of course it is more comfortable today with more powerful machines

There must come a moment when we judge a machine or a system by the results they produce, by the fruits of the tree so to say. And those fruits haven't changed or improved noticeably in decades. There is one big improvement that undeniably requires more memory from the computer that I can think of, which is the much higher resolution of displays of today. Probably there are some more.

Specialized use is of course different, whether that's compiling code, rendering photogrammetry scenes, or playing graphics intensive games.

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This is silly, and I know Sam Altman said that consumers having RAM is not an efficient usage, but the real villains here are the memory manufacturers that have time and again have been proven to collude on price fixing and whatnot, and are now not scaling up production according to demand.

I don’t think it’s very productive to go on a witch hunt on someone who said something stupid and is being taken out of context (albeit he should have known not to say that).

Its because of the companies too i mean they are not making too much ram on purpose to make supply low and demand high.

This is stupid.

I enjoyed this alternate phrasing of the Sam Altman quote:

"From a global allocation perspective, actually, it's quite terrible to [let billionaires] have a bunch of the world's limited supply of [money] sitting in their own [stocks] and being used 5% of the time. You want maximum [taxes] if you're trying to deal with this very supply-constrained environment. And somehow many people's intuition is the opposite of that."

If you want the personal thanks from Altman without having to actually give up your RAM, you can download some here first https://downloadmoreram.com and then upload that to Altman.

While I’m not sure what this does, I’ve made sure to have chatgpt do it for me, safely from the cloud.

I figured it was a cute tongue-in-cheek thing, and crashed my browser tab with a 16gb ask.

that could've been crummy for someone; you should warn that your cute little complaint actually eats ram; half is clearly fiction but the OOM isn't.

Leave Sam alone! Your wit and guile is not appreciated. We would prefer you punch down or across in future engagements.

On a less sarcastic note, I wonder if a community based compute donation could actually help offset knowledge and compute centralisation.

Incentive is difficult but anti-AI sentiment is still as strong as ever. Maybe an A-v-A (in the spirit of H-v-H) campaign might pull in some.

We don't have to talk about paperclips anymore, it's RAM. Anyone want to play a game of ram chip maximizer?

I tried donating 16GB of RAM and it crashed my browser :D

I've donated 25 GB, but the ungrateful brat is still frowning.

https://codeberg.org/TheZoq2/uploadyourram.org/commit/3b5727...

"Iniital commit"

Lol, little cringe "Look guys, how human I am!!"

i agree with sam.

Plus it's far more efficient to buy tons of gpu's for the shelves rather than actually use them.

The real solution is even simpler than having everyone upload their RAM to him: Sam can ask Claude (or ChatGPT, if OpenAI takes diversity hires) to build him a DRAM fab, using ultrathinking, making no mistakes.

Why isn’t Sam Altman just using SoftRAM?

Tweet this at him everyone

This is his stupidest argument ever! I can't believe no one replies back properly:

Just give us back our RAM prices so that everyone can afford 256GB DDR5 and run their models locally!

This solves the datacenter problem and it's impacts, RAMageddon, SSDgeddon, etc..

and they can just sell us the improved models without the hassle of doing the compute themselves..

What's the problem? With the proper ToC's they would still get our data.. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

>so consumers are left to feel the guilt of having unused RAM in their computers

Funny WEB Site!

Not me, I have 2 8G DDR4 sticks sitting in a draw that I purchased a few of years ago when they were cheap. I was going to use them to upgrade my W541 to 32G, but I have one of the first models that the max is 16G. So saving them in case I have RAM issues.

If Sam wants them, he can pay me 5000 USD each for them, otherwise I will proudly hang on to them. If I knew his email I would send him a pic of them saying "hahaha" :)

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Found the person who consumed the fake propaganda about the Sam Altman quote.