I’m lucky to have a high paying job and a wonderful community around me where most of my needs are met, so my cost of living is low even with two children.

Ive been working on early retirement wince the day I started my career and Im a little over halfway there :) If I could double even one of my accounts I’d be set.

I’d retire.

Ah, yes - exactly! The article is also fully unrelated from OPs title - really weird post all around.

I work on networking for distributed rendering for a major cloud provider- very familiar with gpu architecture and use-cases :)

Saying they do more math is a bit tricky. The CPU does crazy types of very complicated math and accomplishes tasks we still have a hard time offloading to GPUs.

I agree with the rest of your statement as a good explanation for why GPUs can do faster and more efficient batch processing of the workloads that can be fit to the SIMD set up we use for most modern GPUs (ignoring general purpose gpu and fancier compute options)

1. GPUs predate 1995
2. They solve a set of problems different from those handled by cpu’s
3. The existence of GPUs wouldnt ‘curb the growth’ of the other processors
4. The government would be best positioned to benefit from that rapid growth, since it is a state level actor that can regulate the use and acquisition of technologies
5. GPUs have also developed very quickly since their advent.

So like the previous comment mentions - No.

Yeah thats a pretty good summary of what I was trying to convey. If this didn’t levitate, no one would’ve blinked twice. But since it did, its being investigated more thoroughly to check if its one of those other things that levitate (or actually a superconductor)

What I’ve gathered from many of the discussions around this topic is that the levitation is a notable feature of superconductors due to th Meissner(?) Effect. So if it couldnt levitate, there would be no reason to suspect that it is a superconductor. Because it does levitate, superconductivity is one of a few possibilities.

There have been indicators it may be a semiconductor instead, but apparently the conditions to accurately produce the material are vague/not fully understood - so attempts at reproduction have failed to rule it in or out 100%

Is this catppuccin themed? Looks great :)

Regarding your first paragraph, I think that’s exactly what’s happening here. Companies don’t make decisions for the benefit of the populations that consume their product - public companies make decisions to benefit their share holders. Dictators don’t make decisions for the benefit of their oppressed citizens - they make decisions to benefit the small number of people that keep them in power and aid in their reign. So a dictatorship making large value deals with a company seems reaaallyy unlikely to lead to any net positive for any of the relevant populations.

Additionally, your phrasing here sounds like you’re writing for an AP exam - Saudi Arabia hasn’t ‘faced challenges’ with upholding human rights and more than the Unabomber ‘faced challenges’ with not killing people with explosives. The nation has consistently and repeatedly (and continues to) flagrantly violate the most basic tenants of human rights and has yet to be held accountable owing entirely to their vast wealth and geopolitical control of the world’s primary energy source.

One can not reasonably argue in good faith that making a nation with a long history of intentional human rights violations, slavery, political and apolitical assassinations, etc - will suddenly (or gradually) improve by acquiring more of the same wealth that has historically enabled them to commit these acts.

There are no nuances or complexities that justify these actions and no tangible benefits associated with ‘a thoughtful dialogue and critique’. Any further communication here just gives you more of a platform to shill for your employers.

So yep, ‘fuck them’ and probably you.

See, the issue here is that you keep mentioning these investment as a means for KSA to modernize its ‘economy’ - but the lemming you replied to (and most people here tbh) couldnt give a shit less about the economy being modernized, the social and cultural values (rampant human rights abuses, et al.) are the issues at hand. Unless those values change, they’ll just go from pretty evil and rich to pretty evil and mooore rich. Which isnt exactly a good thing.

Additionally, you mentioned the individuals and communities that would benefit from this, but that sounds like trickle-down economics to me.

The people who benefit from these massive deals are almost entirely mega-wealthy (like the people who hired you to comment here) and the marginalized communities that face the most difficulties in KSA wont see a dime of this. I mean, KSA is still a slave state for all practical purposes. Doubt google and Msft are going to change that by giving them more data on unwanted elements of their population.

So, like the post above yours says - Fuck them and anyone that does business with them.