And there it is, the actual reason the owning class are jizzing themselves over AI:

Finally they never have to worry about their underlings ever again, now they truly are everything and as self-reliant and self-made as they always told everyone from private school.

No, this is clearly evil and racist and true nazism, and we must reverse it even though it doesn’t hurt anybody but the west, and therefore Russia actually wants it, but not really?

I’m sorry, the talking points are confusing here, can I have my lines again?

Yeah, no, everything won’t be fine.

We learned so much from WW2, and now the greatest generation are dead we’ve mostly forgotten those lessons.

Which means we’ll have to learn them again :(

I know and agree.

But we only adapt immunity from exposure, you can’t force it, we never could.

Nobody respected the nuclear bomb until Hiroshima, that’s an unfortunate tragedy, and we already forgot the horrors of war.

Humanity will have to teach itself again, lessons learned in blood can only ever be taught in the same language.

So, trying not to dox myself, I worked with the architect twice.

Knights Ferry was derived directly from Larrabee (GPU), P54Cs with pre-AVX-512, .

KNC was a die shrink with more cores. Both of these were PCIe accelerators only.

KNL had full Airmont Atom cores with smt4, basically meaningful cores with proper AVX-512. Also you could boot them with linux, or as a PCIe accelerator.

KNM jadded ML instructions, basically 8/16bit float and faster SIMD.

They cancelled KNH.

I interviewed some of the actual Larrabee guys, they were wild, there was a lot of talk about dynamic translation, they were trying to do really complex things, but when people talk like that it makes me think they were floundering on the software and just looking for tech magic solutions to fundamental problems.

Intel always dies when the software gets more complex than really simple drivers, it’s their achilles heel.

KNL also had the whole MCDRAM on package for basically HBM bandwidth, but that didn’t actually work very well in practice, again due to software issues (you have to pick where you allocate, and using it as an l4 cache was not always effective).

Yeah, but that’s the point of education, teaching you that your intuition isn’t always right, and that’s OK.

Whats devastating is when you combine religion, which says ‘either I’m the chosen of God and therefore if he loves me I’m perfect and can never do wrong’ with modern complexity.

I know so many people who think being wrong about anything is the end of the world, so they double and quadruple down and can never learn, they get violently defensive if you suggest they’re wrong about the smallest thing.

College is about repeated exposure to being wrong, and growing from it.

Yeah, we thought it would solve everything.

It solved problems that uncovered a much deeper set of underlying problems… :)

Oof, yeah, they actually had another they didn’t release, based off pentium cores with avx512, basically knights landing with software support for graphics.

They were canceling projects like it was going out of style, which is sad, that would have been amazing for Ai.

Oh, I thought he meant Zelensky.

You are shrooming if you think the puerto rico garbage comment does anything but drive up voting in the south.

They know they’re the only Real Americans, everyone else on the planet is garbage to them.

True, yet Nvidia was a nobody that arrived out of nowhere with the Riva graphics cards, and beat everybody else thoroughly. ATi, S3, 3Dfx, Matrox etc.

Actually, they didn’t.

This was their first: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NV1

Complete failure, overpriced, undercapable, was one of the worst cards on the market at the time, and used quadratics instead of triangles.

NV2 was supposed to power the dreamcast, and kept the quads, but was cancelled.

But the third one stayed up! https://youtu.be/w82CqjaDKmA?t=23

I agree, but the only way humans grow is through experience, we just have to fight as hard as we can through this transition.

Once the boomers are finally out of our misery it might be a fair fight again.

I mean fine, but first gen, they can fix the features and yields over time.

First gen chips are rarely blockbusters, my first gen chips were happy to make it through bringup and customer eval.

Worse because software is so much of their stack, they had huge headroom to grow.

We are growing one.

Immunity comes from exposure, either to the infection, or to a vaccine.

Boomers see something on the internet they agree with, it’s gospel truth, because it proves them right!

Younger generations are slightly more skeptical, and it gets better with time (filter bubbles notwithstanding, and as an artifact of people still wanting to believe).

We will get there.

Well, not everyone, the Russians and Chinese are just plain perma-fucked.

It has.

The fact that we’re in others people’s faces isn’t a bug, unlike before we actually can confront each other and see their arguments, in the past we just made up what the other side believed.

This is a huge improvement, and we can disprove obvious lies to everyone except the truly stupid.

Yeah, growing pains, but still a massive improvement.

If he took that ride, western civ looks a lot more fucked right now.

China and Russia be looking at us like we’re the menu.

Arcs are OK, and the competition is good. Their video encode performance is absolutely unworldly though, just incredible.

Mostly, they help bring the igpu graphics stack and performance up to full, and keep games targeting them well. They’re needed for that alone if nothing else.

They don’t block dbzero, I get that, it’s usually just ignorable.