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My definition of AGI is a computer that can support itself, just turn it on, and it'll earn enough money to pay the server's electricity bills, hire people to maintain and expand its servers, and even improve its own algorithms.

I'd love to see someone try to run one that can meet 100% of the world's demand for remote works.

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How’s that going to work when everyone turns one on and they’re all driving the profit margin to almost zero?

Well, by "computer" we're of course talking about colocated equipment with real capital costs. The data center operators are the equivalent of the people selling shovels to the gold rush prospectors.

This'll go identically to bitcoin mining, which is literally a computer that you plug in and it makes money. The big ASIC manufacturers were running their own ASICs in-house until they were no longer profitable. Then, they would sell them to customers who pre-ordered back when it was profitable.

Then it's a game about collecting enough capital that you'll be the last one standing.

> I'd love to see someone try to run one that can meet 100% of the world's demand for remote works.

I, too, have infinite contempt for my fellow working class members.

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