Sam Altman is among a variety of tech bros known for making absurd, often outright evil comments about the state of the world and the future of technology. The spectacularly tone-deaf and generationally ignorant Altman recently appeared on a podcast, Cheeky Pint (via Tom's Hardware) where he made some fresh comments about his hatred of consumer-owned compute.

"From a global allocation perspective, actually, it's quite terrible to have everybody have a bunch of the world's limited supply of DRAM sitting in their own computer and being used 5% of the time," Altman whined without a hint of irony. The supply is, of course, constrained because of Altman and his ilk, pushing generative AI platforms without so much of a whiff of realized benefits, either social or fiscal. Most AI companies are billions, if not trillions in debt, as none have actually delivered a business model that can seemingly make money.

"You want maximum utilization in the cloud if you're trying to deal with this very supply-constrained environment. And somehow many people's intuition is the opposite of that."

I wonder why people's intuition is the "opposite" of what Altman and his billionaire buddies want. What is this utter insanity?

Altman is rightfully getting dragged on social media, but this isn't the first time he's made comments like this.

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