facow [he/him, any]

That’s a lot of Dedotated Wam

Thanks earthrider

Also “stealing” tech is just kind of how countries develop. It was explicit US policy to steal European patents during industrialization. There’s no reason there should be a global monopoly on some idea

Or are you telling me that vastly the fastest growing platform in history with multiple payment gates (subscriptions, pay per token, licensing etc.) was not profitable

Are you not aware that 99 times out of 100 if you see a tech company rapidly growing it’s completely unprofitable and not even attempting to be profitable yet? It’s called blitzscaling and is pretty clearly what openai is attempting. Like if you see a tech company quickly growing you should be assuming it’s unprofitable until proven otherwise not the opposite lol.

Yeah this article makes no sense, really seems like puff piece slapped together in 15 min from a PR email he sent them. Retired 36 year old multi millionaire shows people they too can solve math puzzles for the low price of 2 mill?

using only publicly available unused cloud storage space … “I was able to do it just by using big tech’s leftovers.”

So he ostensibly used donated storage? Is computing primes even storage intensive? What about the compute? Is that where the 2 million went?

Plus what would “publicly available unused space” even be? Cloud providers don’t just give stuff away to random people because they aren’t using it

He used servers in 17 countries across 24 data centers and on two cloud providers to find the number,

So he was just running this on 2 big cloud services. Did the author just misunderstand him getting some credits from the providers? Did they run his workload as a low priority thing when they were over provisioned, is that what they mean by “leftovers”? Who knows.

he and his programmer father were writing a prime number computer code.

3,00o[sic] to 5,000 volunteers

Come on WashPo doesn’t have editors anymore?

Durant said he also spent the time and money on finding a prime number to show that GPUs can be used for more than AI

What a banal statement. Seems like it’s just a way to shoehorn in a way to bring up AI in the article.

Why would they sub cocaine for ecstasy? I don’t buy it. There’s hardly even any ecstasy in most random ecstasy pills anymore, super stepped on drug

Do you just post every breaking points video you watch to multiple different communities? Why?

Love how confused it gets with drawing parking spots

Can’t believe investors weren’t screaming “What is happening right now?!” and “He just did that!”

And set up your torrent client to only connect through the VPN! Prevent user error

1. You use something as a baseline if you think they’re comparable. The cost of running a picture platform and a video platform are very different and would not justify a comparable split, much less a less favorable split. The split is unjustified by underlying platform costs and therefore greedy.

your insistent on there being malicious actions taken is so odd

2. What are you even trying to say? It’s odd to write a single comment saying that a YouTuber has an app with a poor revenue split? How?

Absolutely hilarious to compare the cost of hosting any video from anyone to a small selection of presumably handpicked pngs. Video is astronomically more expensive before even getting into the fact the successful videos subsidize the cost of hosting the petabytes of unsuccessful ones.

And then he takes even more!

I do love adding emojis in comments. Programmers can have a little unicode as a treat

Can’t believe Nazism keeps ending up in Canada’s wholesome anti-communism

I’m pretty sure I recognize the bodies in the water. Hey that one over there is Joe

Nah events like this aren’t for nepobabies and failsons, they don’t need shit like this to get an internship at their dad’s company. This is for amoral climbers to add another bullet point to their CVs while legitimizing the sponsoring company

Ah yes a green bra. So much more realistic and less “generic”

Beyond parody

What did they get rained on or something?