It strikes me that if it were up to Sam Altman, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Bill Gates and Dario Amodei, this crisis would persist indefinitely. If it were up to them I wouldn't be surprised to see them destroy the GPUs just them to keep them from the plebs.
I picked those names not to be hyperbolic, but because of very specific things I've seen them say.
Let us not forget, once they have all the chips they want, they can just sponsor a politician to start a war with China. Destroy semiconductor manufacturing capacity and they will have monopoly on compute for decades.
In fact I fail to see any other end game where they make profit on the huge liabilities that now have.
This isn't like stealing from a business. These are individuals most private conversations, potentially including their bank accounts etc. Poverty is no defence - and yes, I've spent a great deal of my life barely scraping by. You'll find poor people are significantly less tolerant of theft, especially from individuals, than rich. Whether that evidences the theft inherent in most forms of wealth generation I'll leave up to the reader.
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