Well it is SoftBank.

We should’ve had a four-day workweek decades ago. Computers have already automated so much without LLMs.

That’s true, but after that point the capacity is there and it will be harder to constrain supply in this way after that. After China establishes a major memory player, I assume they wouldn’t want to fall behind after that point either.

I hope China floods the market with cheap RAM and absolutely destroys these scumbag memory companies.

The internet is experiencing a sloppy death.

$185 is still way above the already ridiculous IPO price of $135. If this market made any sense, it wouldn’t have gotten this high in the first place, but since we’re here, it should really continue dropping. However, knowing how this market is, I wouldn’t be surprised if this is just a momentary dip before going back up for some dumb made-up reason.

They’re still planning on making a new Xbox? Sometimes I forget there’s an Xbox console anymore.

One problem with capitalism is that everything is for sale, including the government. The AI industry is intentionally positioning themselves as “too big to fail” so that they can guarantee a government bailout. As for the dotcom bubble, sure the smaller players were allowed to fail, but that just meant more room for the larger players like google and amazon to take over and now they’re definitely too big to fail. With AI, we already have a small handful of huge players and they’ve convinced the government that this is a matter of national security.

On top of that, people’s retirements are more tied to the stupid stock market than ever before, so the government will use that as an excuse to bail out these companies, hence the rush to IPO and enter indexes.

In April 2023, the Joe Biden administration set a target to ensure 56% of all new cars sold in the U.S. by 2032 would be electric.

and we would’ve been able to easily achieve that if he didn’t also slap 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs.

This “moral code” would only be a suggestion rather than a hard constraint, given how this current iteration of AI works.

These politicians are either gigantic morons or malicious pieces of shit. Probably both.

I was surprised about the “with a native Linux version” part since I had recently checked the site and it was missing. That’s cool that there’s a Linux version now. At this point I’m not super interested in the feature set, but maybe something cool will come out of the modding capability (currently not available to users). Netplay is another future feature I’m interested in since the original zsnes had the best snes netplay I had tried.

I look forward to when CXMT scales up and provides cheap memory. The memory cartel will cry about unfair competition, just like when Japan was kicking ass with memory in the 80s.

Chatgpt came out in late 2022. Are you arguing that because the AI bubble didn’t pop yet that it’s not a bubble? The internet persisted but that doesn’t mean the dot-com boom wasn’t a bubble.

CPU manufacturers were getting jealous at the other hardware manufacturers claiming shortages in this artificial scarcity scenario.

I’m saying that every form of progress comes with challenges and downsides, and this saying of “Next generation will be fucked” is a cognitive bias every generation has had for a pretty long time.

Change is not necessarily progress.

Oh boy, guess we can look forward to more vibe-coded slop which will make it an even bigger pain to use.

They should try entering the desktop GPU market.

This isn’t the first time that the memory companies have colluded to raise prices. It’s perhaps one of the more extreme instances, yes, but with the AI excuse going away, things will have to go back to reality, especially as China ramps up production and ruins the cartel setup we’re currently stuck with.

That’s assuming everyone’s devices crap out during this year or two while the AI and memory companies play pretend that they’re actually going to use up all this memory.