Vast AI offers hourly rental of compute hardware? How do you believe this contributes to negative future outcomes?
I ask because assuming scaling hypothesis is mostly true, training potentially dangerous models require more compute than is available for rent. The big labs are using dedicated hardware clusters.
Another factor to examine is whether or not the number was “3 weeks” or “0 weeks”. Assuming Vast consumed ICs from the current limited supply, had Vast been slower to begin operations, the supply would still be limited.
Technically ok it signals Nvidia to order more 3 weeks early, by making the order backlog deeper, but the delta between “contributed” and “didn’t” is very small.
Finally you have to look at threat models. Actually participating in bad outcomes would be something like “let’s rent out compute hardware, not check who our customers are, let them run anything they want, and pay with anonymous credit cards. Hosted offshore.”
Today you would just be supporting illegal activity (for probably a price premium you could demand), but this is what could host the rogues of the future.
you and I have very different models of this. I’m not terribly interested in getting into the details. Some of your points overlap mine, some don’t. that’s all I feel is worth the time.
Vast AI offers hourly rental of compute hardware? How do you believe this contributes to negative future outcomes?
I ask because assuming scaling hypothesis is mostly true, training potentially dangerous models require more compute than is available for rent. The big labs are using dedicated hardware clusters.
Another factor to examine is whether or not the number was “3 weeks” or “0 weeks”. Assuming Vast consumed ICs from the current limited supply, had Vast been slower to begin operations, the supply would still be limited.
Technically ok it signals Nvidia to order more 3 weeks early, by making the order backlog deeper, but the delta between “contributed” and “didn’t” is very small.
Finally you have to look at threat models. Actually participating in bad outcomes would be something like “let’s rent out compute hardware, not check who our customers are, let them run anything they want, and pay with anonymous credit cards. Hosted offshore.”
Today you would just be supporting illegal activity (for probably a price premium you could demand), but this is what could host the rogues of the future.
you and I have very different models of this. I’m not terribly interested in getting into the details. Some of your points overlap mine, some don’t. that’s all I feel is worth the time.