Comment by jiggawatts
3 days ago
> What if we run out of GPU?
These are not finite resources being mined from an ancient alien temple.
We can make new ones, better ones, and the main ingredients are sand and plastic. We're not going to run out of either any time soon.
Electricity constraints are a big problem in the near-term, but may sort themselves out in the long-term.
> main ingredients are sand and plastic
kinda ridiculous point, we're not running into gpu shortages because we don't have enough sand
We already had a sand shortage. In 2019...
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20191108-why-the-world-is...
Even funnier, there are legitimate shortages of usable sand.
That’s my point: the key inputs are not materials but the high tech machinery and the skills to operate them.
Which is better because?
We can't copy/paste a new ASML no matter how hard you try (aside from open sourcing all of their IPs). Even if you do, by the time you copy one generation of machine, they're on a new generation and you now still have the bottleneck on the same place.
Not to mention that with these monopolies they can just keep increasing prices ad infinitum.
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If the US is ready to start a war against Europe to invade Groenland, it's certainly because they need more sand and plastic? Of course in weight it's probably mostly sand and plastic but the interesting bit probably needs palladium, copper, boron, cobalt, tungsten, etc
Greenland is Trump’s Ukraine. He’s jealous of Putin, that is all.
There is nothing in Greenland worth breaking up the alliances with Europe over.
Trump is too stupid to realise this, he just wants land like it’s a Civ game.
PS: An entire rack of the most expensive NVIDA equipment millions of dollars can buy has maybe a few grams of precious or rare metals in it. The cost of those is a maybe a dollar or two. They don’t even use gold any more!
The expensive part is making it, not the raw ingredients.
One would then maybe suspect breaking up alliances with Europe is the point of the whole thing.
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That alliance costs money. It doesn't bring anything good in return: the USSR (that this alliance was created against) is long gone. Trump is a genius if he somehow manages to kill 2 birds with 1 stone: make OTHER parties of the alliance want to disband the alliance AND get some piece of land with a unique strategic position all to himself/U.S.
I think it's Putin who is going to be jealous of Trump, not the other way around.
Well, also for military purposes.
And general imperialism.