>Is your theory that rust makes people dramatic? Or that dramatic people like rust? What other options are there, if not coincidence?
There is a cognitive bias called "loyalty to the brand", in which it says that people prefer the things they have because they rationalize their choices to protect their sense of ego. When they invest time (or a lot of money) to something, they create an emotional connection, especially if that was a choice and not something imposed on it. It is choosing one thing about the other that leads to narratives about why you have done a certain thing, something that is usually connected to your self-image.
There are a number of cognitive trends that converge to create this behavior. This assignment effect appears when you feel that the things you have are superior to things you don't have.
Another bias is the fallacy of irrecoverable costs. This happens when you spend time or money on something you don't want to have or don't want to do, but you can't avoid. For example, imagine that you spent time studying Rust. You will be "hooked" on the idea that given the time spent in this, it is better to defend the language, even if you imagine that it is not for all things.
To combat post-decisional dissonance, the feeling that you committed to one option when the other option could have been better, you strive to feel justified as to what you selected to reduce the anxiety created when questioning himself. All this forms a gigantic group of neurological associations, emotions, details of self-image and trends around the things you have.
All of these are valid, but would this not equally apply to a linux dev stamping their feet and obstructing other people's work because they don't like rust?
The article is interesting, raises doubts about DeepSeek’s narrative, particularly its claim of being built on a shoestring budget with outdated chips. Archer highlights the influence of the Chinese government in tech ventures and suggests that DeepSeek could be part of a strategy to disrupt U.S. tech markets, especially AI investments.
Archer also warns that if DeepSeek’s model is genuine, it could trigger a collapse of the AI bubble, similar to the dot-com crash, by flooding the market with unused Nvidia GPUs and slowing AI hardware demand. He concludes by questioning whether DeepSeek is a breakthrough or a strategic move by China to shift market dynamics.
Most GPUs are for inference time, they will be used for doing more things as the models become more capable and valuable in increasing numbers of situations
As I see it DeepSeek that totally dirupted USA tech industry PxQ projections and, the price part at least, exposing the fact that more efficient cheaper models are possible. They're coping saying that at a lesser P, inevitably there will be a bigger Q due to Jevons Paradox.
I'd say that won't happen immediately, as the industry needs to shift based on this new information, plus, this development erodes confidence in the possibility that industry leaders really know what they are doing.
>By open sourcing so that others can adapt their approaches and improve their models to be as cheap?
But can they (americans) make cheap models? In my view, this was China telling investors to look at them instead of the americans. Add that to the 1 trillion yuan in investments the government has promised to make in AI, China is looking to demonstrate that it is in the game.
What PRC dunking on US AI at fraction of cost, latter is key, is to ensure all the trillion dollar soverign funds DON'T invest 100s of billions in American AI because ROI looks bad now. Americans are/will still twist arms and mandating "either us or them" approach to ensure investors stay way from PRC AI... and as long as US have export controls on hardware US still retains strong leverage. But many US companies lost the snakeoil salespitch for obscene investments.
IMO PRC doesn't really need outside investers (FDI single digit %s anyway), the 1T AI investment from Bank of China isn't going to prioritize LLMs / short term "AGI" grift. They're focusing on industry... biopharma etc... transforming atoms because they've got the industrial supply chain to build that humanoid robot army powered by second mover advantage models that can't make up for the fact nice prose isn't going to make US build as effeciently as PRC short of speedrunning for grey goo nano machines.
I read a story last year from Techpowerup where they said that AMD is making big changes to the way it approaches technology, shifting its focus from hardware development to emphasizing software experiences, APIs and AI.
Sony and Microsoft don't need to interact with AMD's software, they just use the hardware. Just see that Sony made its own upscaling software via ML and even created hardware with several pieces of RDNA architectures, so much so that they called it RDNA 2X (RDNA 2 (compute) + WMMA from RDNA 3 and RT from RDNA 4).
There is a cognitive bias called "loyalty to the brand", in which it says that people prefer the things they have because they rationalize their choices to protect their sense of ego. When they invest time (or a lot of money) to something, they create an emotional connection, especially if that was a choice and not something imposed on it. It is choosing one thing about the other that leads to narratives about why you have done a certain thing, something that is usually connected to your self-image.
There are a number of cognitive trends that converge to create this behavior. This assignment effect appears when you feel that the things you have are superior to things you don't have. Another bias is the fallacy of irrecoverable costs. This happens when you spend time or money on something you don't want to have or don't want to do, but you can't avoid. For example, imagine that you spent time studying Rust. You will be "hooked" on the idea that given the time spent in this, it is better to defend the language, even if you imagine that it is not for all things.
To combat post-decisional dissonance, the feeling that you committed to one option when the other option could have been better, you strive to feel justified as to what you selected to reduce the anxiety created when questioning himself. All this forms a gigantic group of neurological associations, emotions, details of self-image and trends around the things you have.