Charlie Stross on Nostr: nprofile1q…czw77 We're heading towards the buffers at the end of the track wrt. ...

nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpq5dmlle22zd4ypr05le5mttr6xusfp5yld4nq08qe9yzaa8nvj23q4czw77 (nprofile…zw77) We're heading towards the buffers at the end of the track wrt. Moore's Law and the rentiers who invested in the VLSI industry still want the rate of profit they've become accustomed to, even though the cost of computation has crashed so low nobody canfigure out anything useful to do with it.

So we get compute-intensive hype bubbles designed to fleece investors: cryptocurrency, LLMs, VR/AR, quantum computing (the latter is more compute-R&D-intensive, but follows the pattern).