Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is Just Word Me with a comment about Sam Altman’s case against people “inefficiently” owning their own RAM:

This can be said about most things that make the world’s economies run “Consumerism”. How many of us need a lawnmower seven days a week or a wood chipper or a camping tent or whatever we have sitting around unused.

But also highlights how narrow a point of view Sam Altman has that he is just worried about the one thing that’s costing him a lot of money this week.

In second place, it’s an anonymous comment about what the midterm results mean about how Americans feel, and how it’s pretty clear regardless of whether the Democrats are going to do better:

He didn’t do that. People voted that way because they are sick of this shit, which is what was pointed out. Whether anyone steps up to do an actually good job is another matter entirely.

For editor’s choice on the insightful side, we’ve got two more comments about Altman’s attack on people owning RAM. First, it’s an anonymous reminder that RAM has a lot of uses:

It’s also, I think, notable that RAM has uses other than ‘running an AI’, which are, you know, still kind of important to people, like having their phones and computers work in the first place.

That alone makes the “so I should have all the RAM and rent it back to you” argument kind of stupid. But it looks like it never even crossed his mind.

Next, it’s Stephen T. Stone with a reminder that efficiency isn’t everything:

Humans do a lot of things inefficiently. Would you prefer to never own a computer of your own again because Altman and his buddies thought it would be more “efficient” to rent you access to even the smallest amount of computing power for the rest of your life? Would you want to have an OpenAI terminal installed in your home (for a modest fee, naturally), constantly pay for the privilege of using that terminal to watch Netflix, and have that terminal ripped out of your home if you miss even a single payment or access content OpenAI doesn’t think you should be seeing?

Over on the funny side, our first place winner is a much simpler anonymous quip in response to Altman:

Sam is a paperclip.

In second place, it’s Volunteer Troll with a reply to the weird and false claims that Techdirt or our commenters have said “multiple times” that Trump would cancel the midterms:

In fact, Trump was going to cancel the midterms.

Now, one other person has to post it for the multiple part.

For editor’s choice on the funny side, we start out with one final anonymous response to Sam Altman, this time passing on a joke from Slashdot:

I was very fond of a Slashdot remark along the same subject that pointed out they were wildly over-toileted.

That even if they spent an hour every day using the toilet, that’s 23 hours it’s not being used, and is so miserably inefficient.

That it would be much more efficient to have one toilet for every 24 people (and a constant line – without people lined up there may be idle time), thus maximizing toilet efficiency.

(And, perhaps more apropos to this article, you should have a centralized toilet company that charges you rent every time you use the toilet…)

Finally, it’s a quick anonymous quip in response to a post in which we mentioned “crossing t’s and dotting i’s”:

This always makes me cry – what about the under-respected, often-overlooked lower-case j’s?

That’s all for this week, folks!