It seems like gaming made GPU manufacturing scale enough to start using them as general compute, Bitcoin pumped billions into this market, driving down prices (per FLOP) and AI reaped the benefit of that, when crypto moved to asics and crashed later on.

But what's next? We've got more compute than we could reasonably use. The factories are already there, the knowledge and techniques exist.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Finally very detailed climate simulations to know how hard we're screwed

[–] pkill 3 points 4 months ago

...made using the arguably the most criminally environmentally disastrous tech we've invented in the past few decades. How ironic!

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