Comment Re:Hang. (Score -1, Flamebait) 133
Maybe they just see what America's leaders and government do and imitate it.
Comment Re:\o/ (Score 1) 42
And people wonder why the peasants want to burn mad scientists and their castles.
Comment Re:Sanity? On WALL-STREET? (Score 1) 74
At that point, the whole thing could become beneficial to society again, instead of just making some already rich assholes even richer, while taking from everybody else.
This isn't some unwanted side-effect, though. *This the point.* Wall Street, the stock market, the entire finance sector may have been something else in the past, but it has primarily been a wealth-transfer engine for the benefits of those with wealth and connections, for decades. Just wait for the current hype cycle to come apart, and watch the government make the capitalist-class whole to the detriment of the public.
Comment Re:Qualified (Score 1) 69
He clearly wanted the job. He's a space enthusiast. Even if he has to work within a restrictive political framework he's going to bring science and motivation to getting mankind into space in a big way.
Are you talking about Von Braun or Isaacman?
Comment Re:No worse than (Score 3, Informative) 163
To be fair, they were doing a pretty good job themselves before that. In no small part by building almost nothing smaller than a truck, and then not building them to the same standards as other manufacturers.
Comment Let them fight! (Score 3, Informative) 42
And hopefully both can lose.
Disney spent years refusing to pay contracted royalties to authors of the IP it purchased. Its executives and shareholders can all go broke.
Comment Re: psychiatrist for AI (Score 1) 78
It resembles a student that does not know what to do but is trying hard to talk himself out.
So, next President of the United States, then?
Comment Re:And I thought computer god was a daydream. (Score 1) 110
To clarify, the up-front fee will be "the net worth of the median boomer's estate".
Comment Re:And I thought computer god was a daydream. (Score 1) 110
This firm faith in AI to solve all of humanity's problems is really, REALLY stupid to begin with, but thinking it's going to solve the two party gridlock we've suffered under here in the states? That's a step too far into the absurd. Somebody needs to bring these clowns back to reality. Or just figure out a way to have them fully consume the Kool Aide, upload themselves into their digital god, and get the fuck out of the way of those of us that just want to live a life in the real world.
The Marching Morons meets destructive uploads? The pitch is, "We euthanize you, disassemble your brain, and upload you into the cloud so that you can live in paradise forever". But the reality is "we kill you, then an LLM trained on your email and posting history imitates you (badly, but with nice visuals)". It's would be the techbro equivalent of a cult mass-suicide.
Yeah, I can see it. Forget perfect upload capability. We'll train this constantly wrong LLM algorithm on your data and you'll live forever, bro! Granted, you're digital ghost will need to continue to pay $19.95 a month forever, or it will be deleted. No freeloaders in digital heaven.
Nah. It'll be a one-time up-front fee of for "digital immortality". The additional fees will be for the surviving family members to pay for access to the simulacrum of their departed.
Comment Re:And I thought computer god was a daydream. (Score 2) 110
This firm faith in AI to solve all of humanity's problems is really, REALLY stupid to begin with, but thinking it's going to solve the two party gridlock we've suffered under here in the states? That's a step too far into the absurd. Somebody needs to bring these clowns back to reality. Or just figure out a way to have them fully consume the Kool Aide, upload themselves into their digital god, and get the fuck out of the way of those of us that just want to live a life in the real world.
The Marching Morons meets destructive uploads? The pitch is, "We euthanize you, disassemble your brain, and upload you into the cloud so that you can live in paradise forever". But the reality is "we kill you, then an LLM trained on your email and posting history imitates you (badly, but with nice visuals)". It's would be the techbro equivalent of a cult mass-suicide.
Comment Re:It depends (Score 2) 43
I'm not sure that it's possible to come up with a way to throw AI systems out the back of a spaceship fast enough to make them viable as a propulsion system, no matter how much better they would be used that way.
Surely if you burn enough money fast enough, it can be used to generate some sort of thrust.
Comment Re:"AI" is getting desperate (Score 1) 43
Sam Altman farted into a bag and put it in the freezer. Today he calls it AGI.
And now he wants you to give him a trillion dollars to open the bag.
Comment Re:Are the researchers? (Score 1) 59
The story did link the study.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.251...
The researchers appear to be AI researchers who drew their conclusion from a simulation of the US labor market.
Comment Re:Google's own artificially made demand, you mean (Score 1) 57
Every time any action of mine has led to Google doing any AI "computation" has been unintentional. I never asked for it. Google just chose to bundle it with my search.
This point cannot be emphasized enough. This is just another facet of the self-inflating bubble. The desperation behind the hype is becoming more and more obvious. Hyping AI is the new "no one gets fired for buying IBM". And once it pops, every one of these chuckleheads will say, "No one could have seen it coming" and walk away with the money their fraudulent gains.
Comment Re:DCs in space is just fucking delusional (Score 1) 90
Are those costs based on the 35t Starship payload SpaceX has sort-of flown (but not yet truly demonstrated), or the theoretical 100t payload Musk wants?
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