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Altman Defends RAM Buying: more memory for users, less for the old scarcity story
Nov 4, 2026SOURCE: theverge.com
SO WHAT
In the thousand-day window, RAM-as-agency rhetoric is a small nucleation—until ownership and model access determine who benefits.
Altman frames PC RAM expansion as pro-consumer choice while the wire watches compute power concentrate elsewhere. The phase transition signal: memory is treated like agency, not infrastructure lock-in.
This is Negative Resistance’s reframed reading of a reported signal. The headline and analysis above are our interpretation through the thousand-day-window lens. The original reporting lives at the source linked above.