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You know, I can absolutely see a future where Nvidia and the other hardware makers turn their eyes back towards consumers as they see the build-out slowing and the upgrade budgets shrinking.

What if in one year, Nvidia puts out a GPU or all in one PC AI server thing that will let you run free models that are as good or better than current frontier ones, at a reasonable speed, and they charge like $3000 or $5000 for the thing?

Well, I guess if they want to be proper capitalists/enshittifiers, they would first sell them for 10x as much to corporate IT departments who can replace their ridiculous tech giant subscriptions with local compute augmentation. On-prem is back, baby!

Then they can rip off the gamers and the home lab enthusiasts for a while.

And finally, at long last, with the economy raked over the coals and a cool trillion in the bank, Jensen will briefly feel whole inside. Surely he will.

My engagement terminal???

American here, and while somebody could righteously and pointlessly make a “not all americans” argument, you are spot on about the culture as a whole.

The rape history is valid but even that is a subset of the larger cultural issue where helping others is seen as weak and for suckers, while shameless greed and punching down are what the smart and the strong do. Look at none other than the president. He’s a rapist and a scammer, sure, but he also brags about how he doesn’t pay taxes because he’s smart and his supporters eat it up.