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New comment by ItsMattyG in "LeCun has "zero concerns" about AI wiping out humanity, recent "rogue" incidents"

ItsMattyG — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 01:47:58 +0000

Yes, of course Eventually prices will go down... But there will be a period where things are much more expensive, based on simple inability to make much more gpus than the current rollouts demand.

And after that period when costs are going up due to gpus replacing workers... All bets are off on terms of what the economy even looks like

New comment by ItsMattyG in "What I learnt co-leading an AI Safety bootcamp for legal and governance practit"

ItsMattyG — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 19:26:57 +0000

that's not me, but hi

New comment by ItsMattyG in "What I learnt co-leading an AI Safety bootcamp for legal and governance practit"

ItsMattyG — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 18:26:12 +0000

painting groups you don't agree with with obviously false descriptors like 'sex cult'

New comment by ItsMattyG in "What I learnt co-leading an AI Safety bootcamp for legal and governance practit"

ItsMattyG — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 17:53:39 +0000

You fall for this stuff? It's obviously not a sex cult

New comment by ItsMattyG in "LeCun has "zero concerns" about AI wiping out humanity, recent "rogue" incidents"

ItsMattyG — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 03:36:56 +0000

Again, there is a moat based on compute. If the thesis is right, cost of compute will only rise... As it is as you say someone will have it be quite wealthy to host something like Astra with trillions of parameters, but that cost will only rise with demand for serving these frontier models.

New comment by ItsMattyG in "LeCun has "zero concerns" about AI wiping out humanity, recent "rogue" incidents"

ItsMattyG — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 01:03:41 +0000

To me it seems the opposite. There's a few companies in the world that have enough compute to train and serve frontier models.

As the frontier gets smarter and more useful prices will only go up, as they are set to replace jobs being paid six or seven figures a year - the demand for as much inference on these models for as long as possible will be astronomical, but compute starting in 2030 will not be keeping up.

Eventually prices will fall for assistants but the frontier will be the most profitable thing in the world, and the top companies basically already have oligopolies due to their ridiculously expensive compute investments.

New comment by ItsMattyG in "I quit OpenAI because its culture is broken"

ItsMattyG — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:45:49 +0000

Is this news at this point?

You can basically time your openai releases by if another safety person has quit in protest

New comment by ItsMattyG in "Pop!_OS bans AI-generated code from much of its codebase"

ItsMattyG — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 19:04:47 +0000

I don't see how this will survive the attacker/defender gap as ls get increasingly good at cyber security and finding 0 days... but maybe it's an obscure enough is it doesn't matter?

New comment by ItsMattyG in "Ask HN: What are you reading?"

ItsMattyG — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 21:27:06 +0000

if you're into litrpg, have you tried the wandering inn? it's not so meaty but it's above almost all other litrpgs in that department and the storytelling is great

New comment by ItsMattyG in "AI needs $6T in annual revenue to justify data centre boom"

ItsMattyG — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 21:23:06 +0000

eventually it will be pennies, but based on current trends i'd bet value outpaces price decreases for a while once it actually becomes an employee replacement

the demand then will rise and prices will rise in tandem

it is of course possible that 'deep learning hits a wall' and they don't get there, but i wouldn't bet on it

New comment by ItsMattyG in "AI needs $6T in annual revenue to justify data centre boom"

ItsMattyG — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 21:00:09 +0000

true, and humanity may all be dead due to rogue ai or speciation, so maybe there'd be no humans around to care

New comment by ItsMattyG in "AI needs $6T in annual revenue to justify data centre boom"

ItsMattyG — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 20:58:13 +0000

say more?

New comment by ItsMattyG in "AI needs $6T in annual revenue to justify data centre boom"

ItsMattyG — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 20:57:46 +0000

you can't reason about currently because the entire economy will change before collapsing completely - there will be a poor class and a rich class

New comment by ItsMattyG in "AI needs $6T in annual revenue to justify data centre boom"

ItsMattyG — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 20:40:51 +0000

they won't need their advertising models because they'll have a new oligopoly on ai, and make the money directly from b2b

which yes, will completely destroy the consumer economy and social structures and current forms of governance

New comment by ItsMattyG in "AI needs $6T in annual revenue to justify data centre boom"

ItsMattyG — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 20:38:24 +0000

sure there will be, people who own the means of production will buy everything, and rule over the peasants

like in the good old days

New comment by ItsMattyG in "AI needs $6T in annual revenue to justify data centre boom"

ItsMattyG — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 20:27:24 +0000

... the people who are currently paying workers

New comment by ItsMattyG in "AI needs $6T in annual revenue to justify data centre boom"

ItsMattyG — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 20:14:36 +0000

as ai becomes an actual replacement for workers, costs will rise to what you would pay a worker, and $6T will be easy

New comment by ItsMattyG in "AI needs $6T in annual revenue to justify data centre boom"

ItsMattyG — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 20:13:30 +0000

it seems fairly obvious to me that once ai becomes as good as a worker, people will pay a workers wages to use it - 24/7, can't quit, can't complain that badly, no lunch breaks

productivity tooling replaces employees

New comment by ItsMattyG in "No AI Fridays"

ItsMattyG — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 15:12:02 +0000

What makes it false?

New comment by ItsMattyG in "Why are there so many rationalist cults?"

ItsMattyG — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 13:20:19 +0000

FWIW, my rationalist friends were warning about Covid before I had heard about it from others, and talking about AI before it was on others radar.