Comment by jijijijij | Hacker News Reader

Comment by jijijijij | Hacker News Reader

> “The AI-driven growth in the data center has led to a surge in demand for memory and storage. Micron has made the difficult decision to exit the Crucial consumer business in order to improve supply and support for our larger, strategic customers in faster-growing segments,” said Sumit Sadana, EVP and Chief Business Officer at Micron Technology.

"AI"-driven collapse will go down as the stupidest crisis in human history. The idiotic waste of gigantic amounts of civilizatory resources, for something that hasn't remotely proven useful yet, while simultaneously neglecting existentially mandated reforms and investments, in an outrageously obvious critical moment in time ... well that's gonna dwarf even historic missteps of organized religion and island cultures.

I am calling it now:

* Cancelled: Cyberpunk.

* New lore timeline: Hypepunk > Crash-Core > Silicon Gothic

* Historian epoch title: The Dark Ages.

Indeed it was naive of us not to have called that controversial medieval lull in societal progress "The First Dark Ages".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Ages_(historiography)

The term is up for grabs again. Also, future historians may not categorize medieval times as we do. By then, libraries may have been converted to data centers and historic artifacts burned to fuel GPUs, or destroyed through hallucinated restoration advice. Remaining digital traces may have been exhaustively overwritten by verbose AI prose, or simply lost when AWS introduced generative DNS. In a 1000 years, the only preserved evidence of medieval times may be an LLM's summary of "A Knight's Tale".

"The idiotic waste of gigantic amounts of civilizatory resources, for something that hasn't remotely proven useful yet"

https://ai.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/AI-S2501208

Remember when AOL bought Time Warner?

I do think it's proven useful, much like the internet had in the nineties.

Doesn’t hold a candle to ATT burning $60B+ on it less than a decade ago. Or $30B+ on DirecTV.

2010s ATT leadership was something else.

Dude, that's like someone's opinion. Also neural nets doing pattern recognition on x-ray images is not the reason Micron abandoned their consumer shovel business.

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