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Wait til all these projects crash, burn, and get liquidated. Gonna be an amazing secondary market for brand new, unused bulk hardware.
But you won't be able to afford it because the market crash means you lose your job.
I think people don't realise that if AI fails, it's pretty much guaranteed to collapse the US economy.
Do it, do it, do it, do it!
Meh, not really a full collapse. Just like 75% of it and a huuuuge recession. Or maybe a "Tiny Depression"? Basically, 10 years to recover. Which is where we're going anyway, with out without AI.
Don't you worry it's gonna have a global impact againjudt like it did in 08. Imagine losing your job in Italy for instance cause some bankers got ultra rich in the US. What a dumb fucking world.
I didn't feel anything of it in Europe.
It destroyed the budget of scientific research in Spain. I was a Spanish researcher then. There was a point when universities couldn't pay us the grant that the government had already assigned to us. Some of my peers missed rent. I heard stories of Spanish PhD. students stranded all over the world. I quit research (my dream job at the time) because of this crisis and never came back to it.
Happy you felt nothing in your happy little bubble.
I know plenty people who are currently homeless in Europe originally lost their job following the 2008 crash.
I don't think 2008 really had a significant effect in Australia. I don't remember hearing much about it.
A bunch of my friends were made redundant. Some had visas dependent on their work, employer sponsored and had to leave Australia. Heck, we call it the gfc as an acronym. We just didn’t have a general recession.
And if AI doesn’t fail, people will be unemployed.
God, I hope so..
Yes, of course
Except, i doubt anyone will be doing much with a 32 code Xenon CPU Windows snobs cant even run Windows on without a super giga 1000€ license for more than 16 Core CPUs
And the cuda only fanless and outputless GPU will also be kinda useless, especially because they all need a special setup to force feed air through the entire rack to not overheat
I mean it’s 64/128/256 cores for home/pro/workstation so not really. People buying aftermarket server parts that want windows can probably figure out how to type
irm https://get.activated.win/ | iexif they don’t want to pay for it anyways lol.Not really. They're not making consumer grade stuff, they're making hardware for data centers so unless you're planning on doing a DIY data center you're not buying the hardware. Hard drives are likely an exception.
You're more likely to see cheap VPS services than cheap secondhand hardware.