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KatherinaReichelt@feddit.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 17 hours ago

“Ram Altman” Is Now a Linux Script That Emails Sam Altman Daily to Report How Much Unused RAM Is in Your PC

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“Ram Altman” Is Now a Linux Script That Emails Sam Altman Daily to Report How Much Unused RAM Is in Your PC

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Sam Altman is not having a good couple of weeks; ever since he said OpenAI’s ram needs are more important than consumer electronics, the internet has been unforgiving. But one man has taken …
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    This is goddamned amazing.

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    Man I might be a wierdo here, but I don’t want to give him free data. His company has stolen enough as it is.

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      That was my first though too. The whole point is to stop sending them our data. But like someone else said, it doesn’t need to be real. Maybe we start reporting there’s a shit ton ram on Jupitor ripe for assimilation.

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      Who says it has to be real data?

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        Throw open a bunch of cloud VMs

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        I like your thinking.

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    Reminder this can put you in prison in Australia

    https://lamontlaw.com.au/legal-articles/using-a-carriage-service-to-harass-menace-or-cause-offence-section-474-17-criminal-code-act-1995-cth/

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      “Offensive” conduct must be more than merely hurtful, annoying or vexing. It must be “calculated or likely to arouse significant anger, significant resentment, outrage, disgust, or hatred in the mind of a reasonable person in all the circumstances.” Moreover, it must “be likely to have a serious effect upon the emotional well-being of an addressee.”

      I dunno if that’s entirely true but maybe I’m misunderstanding this - it seems kinda open to interpretation.

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        Look at harassment, not offence

        “harassing” conduct, imply a “serious potential effect upon an addressee, one which causes apprehension, if not a fear, for that person’s safety"

        Easy to argue that case with how upset a large portion of society are about what he’s doing

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          Ahh yeah true, good point.

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      isn’t it punishment enough living in Australia?

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    Here’s the unused ram that I keep laying around in a box. Can someone tweet it at Sam for me?

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      Get a load of Mr. Moneybags over here. They have memory AND a video card just laying around.

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        A SSD as well (top right).

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      Is that a GeForce GT?

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      Man, these days that’s a dangerous pic. Gonna have roving ram gangs knocking down your door

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      You mean X it?

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        eXcrete it all over him

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      Old MacDonald had a RAM, E-I-E-I-O!

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    Based on the spelling on the Github page, I’m not running this. There’s an absolute lack of attention to detail advertised by the abysmal writing in the Readme. Say what you will, but red flags are red flags; and after a few decades we learn that sloppy writing is sloppy writing.

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      It’s a 287 line shell script; it’s pretty easy to read. It’s also very obviously LLM generated

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        287 lines to run free | mailx?? Jesus what has the world come to

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      This will be the most satisfying bubble burst i’ve ever witnessed.

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        I don’t think so. The people responsible will have their golden parachutes, while the rest of us will have to deal with the full blown recession.

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    We could also save a lot of energy if we stopped using our brains, and instead have AI think for us.
    Did anyone ever think of that?

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      In fact, the AI data centers can better use that energy. If only there were some way we could capture the energy our body inefficiently generates and use it to help the data centers, almost like a battery.

      We could even feed back some of the energy we give to the data centers to put our minds at ease, perhaps by simulating a matrix of stimulus approximating, you know, the height of human civilization…

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        I’m thinking “late 90’s”

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        Granted, but only if the exit mechanism requires you to take estradiol.

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        Somebody should make a movie about that. 😋

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          Just one, though. It’s a great premise but I bet they’d try to make it a trilogy or something and just fuck it up.

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            On revisit the trilogy isn’t that ass. It suffers from the first movie being like a genre and era defining masterpiece.

            It’s a bit like calling the dark knight trilogy ass because dark knight was so monumentally above and beyond the other 2

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            But if those creators enlisted a bunch of other folks to make anime adaptions/extended stories, I bet that would be okay.

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              That dude running so hard he ran out of his own body and into the matrix. That still lives with me

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                That’s just what happens when you hit 88 miles per hour, unfortunately.

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              I bet that would be okay.

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          maybe name it based on the kind of math that LLMs are built from, some kind of multiplication beginning with an m, it’s slipped my mind

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        Well… Only if you “combined it with a form of fusion”.

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      Way ahead of you

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        😋 👍

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      Better yet, rent our unused brain space and let corporations use that wasted brain energy for their server farms … great income for the average person who seldom uses their brains. Then we could use that income to buy credits to have AI think for us … circle of life.

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        What a ridiculous idea. The unused brain space is for ads! It’s like cryptomining but for Google and Facebook.

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          or for rendering AI porn … so much AI porn

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        rent our unused brain space and let corporations use that wasted brain energy

        But the corporations have the unused brain space. It correlates inverse to their income and executive power. They tend to waste it on doomscrolling Xitter and socializing while golfing.

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        They’re already trying to run A.I. on human brain neurons. How long until they can use living human brains for running A.I.?

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      I was too busy not using my brain to think of that

      CHECKMATE!

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        Error ERROR does not compute. 💥 😋

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    How the F did this guy convince all the world’s richest people to invest in his chatbot?

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      “Hey guys, if we trade money back and forth for a couple years people will think we’ll be worth more and we can leverage our stock options to make shitloads of money we can use to take even greater control of the economy”

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      Rich people, by and large, incredibly stupid and narcissistic. They do not have the intelligence to understand how awful Ai is and they are easily duped by the promise that it will a) do their jobs for them and b) suck them off over how “smart” they are for asking basic questions the whole time.

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      Because the chatbot felt human enough to trick many people into a hype.

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      by telling them it was gonna replace knowledge workers. people believe what they want to hear.

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        No-one consumes the anti-hopium like the C-suite. They already think they’re above the plebes, and that dehumanization went through “them before us” and now is at “their pain for our benefit”. They’re only one step away from “This was Steve in R&D? He’s delicious with the mesquite.”

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    I have a computer with 352 GB just sitting there doing nothing. I finally have a use for it!

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      Email him that you’re using it for local inference too, even if you aren’t.

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    Fucking RAM Burglar.

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      RAM Burglar

      Oh shit. This is gold, Jerry. GOLD!

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        I’m quite proud of this one.

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      Well, sniffer. He sniffs for free RAM now. 🤭

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    I’ve just sent an email toward him to report that 2.32Gb of RAM was unused in my computer today.

    I will report every.single.day.

    FYI, the email is “ceo.admin@openai.com”

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    Feed him more data - brilliant.

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      I’m gonna edit the script to say I have 192 GB

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        And this, right here, is the last post by sorghum@sh.itjust.works before the Open AI repo men came for them.

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            “Call me daddy when I take it.”

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            Is that a star commonly used in communism? Your ram is my ram now

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              https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Come_and_take_it

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        If it accurately reports it, I won’t need to edit the script.

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          That’s my point, I don’t want it to be accurate. I just want it to rage bait 'ol Scammy.

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            Yeah, I got that. But I’m bragging that I actually have 192 GB.

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              128 gang here, problem is the script send what is unused and well I use 90% of it. Its my ram and I want to use it all.

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              Okay, little jelly, but what the hell are you even doing with 64 GB of RAM? Are you running a mini-version of AWS?

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                multiple VMs mostly

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                I need huge amounts of RAM for video editing. When the bubble pops I’m hoping to upgrade to 128GB.

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        That’s only… roughly… not even 1 TB.
        BLOODY ROOKIE!

        /s

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    U mad bro gif

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    There is no “unused” RAM in a Linux machine. RAM that is not allocated makes a wonderful disk cache, basically since the kernel knew block devices.

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      Especially if you use ZFS.

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        ARC go brrrr (or dedupe, but the new dedupe uses much less memory)

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