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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
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- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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The data centers still have more compute, they have more money and regular people are being priced out of hardware because of datacenter demand, and they already had more to begin with. The question is whether the market demand for that compute is effectively unlimited, or if there's a point of diminishing returns. If the former, then no amount of crowdsourcing would be able to make datacenters obsolete because home computers cannot satisfy the demand on their own. If the latter, then yeah it is possible.
If we get to a point where anything you'd really want AI for can be achieved with a smaller model and more powerful stuff is niche and rarely needed, then data center compute may become obsolete. Local models are already very useful and good enough is good enough.