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tinygrad rebuts Altman on local inference
tinygrad pushes back on Sam Altman calling local inference a terrible allocation, defending owning powerful personal computers.
Key points
- @__tinygrad__ quoted @morqon's claim that local inference is a terrible allocation of scarce resources.
- @__tinygrad__ said "from a global allocation perspective" is exactly what's wrong with these type people.
- @__tinygrad__ compared the argument to taking your car, your XBOX, and your wife.
- @__tinygrad__ said he loves having powerful computers that sit there and wait for him.
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"from a global allocation perspective" is exactly what's wrong with these type people. Next they will take your car; it's only used 5% of the time. Then your XBOX. Then your wife.
I love having powerful computers that sit there and wait for me. That's what it means to be rich.Quoting @morqon: sam: local inference is a terrible allocation of scarce resources
“a lot of people want local inference, and somehow they assume that the problem is solved now because we have open-source models, we're going to be able to run them on our computers, and so we're not going to need all the stuff in the data centre
but from a global allocation perspective, actually it's quite terrible to have everyb
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