UploadYourRam.org Wants You to Donate Your Idle RAM to a Better Cause
Upload Your RAM
A satirical site takes aim at Sam Altman's argument that keeping RAM in our own computers is inefficient. Since already-purchased RAM can't be un-bought, the page offers a "revolutionary RAM upload technology" that lets users send their idle memory off to a worthier purpose — a deadpan jab at the cloud-first pitch.
But RAM that has been purchased already can't be un-purchased so consumers are left to feel the guilt of having unused RAM in their computers.
- thih9
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.
- petervandijck
The quote in context really wasn’t that weird https://sputnikintelligence.com/things/quote/6vqm-hkv5-qm1d
- zipzad
I (or ironically, Codex) did something similar yesterday: https://ramforsam.zad.zip
- geekgod382
Why do people pay $15 just to buy domains for these meme websites?
- petervandijck
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
- bajard
I suspect that this actually downloads something instead of uploading. I have no proof, but I believe it.
- alexpadula
Error code: 5
- carlosjobim
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 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.