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Comment Re:Its really all about logistics (Score 1) 85

The stated goal of Lunar Gateway is developing expertise in human crewed long-duration deep space missions, an admirable one, but not entirely committed to Lunar exploitation

My expectations for long-term egress from the moon involve a mass accelerator, which could shove human cargo a bit less aggressively than cargo, towards either Earth or Mars

This would involve raw material exploitation on the moon and an active market for those materials on Mars, or even Earth if the economies of scale work out...

These things, admittedly are speculation, but would become the least expensive option if Humans are to expand through the Sol system

Comment It's too expensive to do that (Score 1) 9

Litigating each individual infringer is impossibly expensive for them. That's why they tried to go through the utility company.

For now what they will probably do is pick off a few people here and there to use as examples and use the full weight of the legal system to ruin their lives. Of course if you know anything about criminal justice harsh punishments are not effective deterrence.

So far the only reliable way to stop piracy has been to make a product that is better and have consumers that can actually afford to consume.

Comment Re: Unit conversion? (Score 2) 60

Here, from the horse's mouth:

Summary

Assuming Google AI search gives 1 lie in 10 answers (10%), it is roughly one-eighth of a Trump (0.125).
In other words, you would need 8 AI lies to equal the concentration of misinformation found in a single normalized Trump output.
Would you like to apply this "Trump" unit to other historical figures or tech benchmarks to see how they stack up?

Comment Re: So when can it replace Trump? (Score 0) 60

I'd rather have a digital lying machine than the sub-human one we have right now. At least people will be more willing to ignore criminal orders because they are not in an AI cult. The AI do really like to start nuclear wars but nobody would follow those orders... But given how much AI produced slop from the White House already, we might just end up with a nuclear war... like we did tariffs against penguin island.

Comment Re:Billionaire (Score 1) 52

Personally, I fail to see how molesting little girls could be any part of a successful business model

Doing unspeakably evil acts is part of many "successful business models." Whether it's mafia-style threats of "pay me or I will rape/kill your family," eliminate-your-competition/opponent mass-murders-and-take-their-property-as-spoils like you see in some wars ("ethnic cleansing" anyone?), or actually selling the "work product" of crimes (e.g. selling stolen goods or filming a rape and selling the photographs), there is money to be made from acts of evil.

Comment Re:Wait... (Score 1) 29

And the really annoying thing about this is that when the AI bubble inevitably crashes, it's going to be difficult to repurpose all of these specialized AI processors into something useful..

This won't be like the 2018-2023 crypto bubble, where we end up with a ton of cheap used GPU's and power supplies available for resale. This stuff with mostly end up in the landfill and scavenged for their raw materials.

"Inevitably crashes"? And how exactly do you think is THAT going to happen? All those people using claude are all of a sudden going to abandon it? At worst some stock market bubbles will burst, but your fantasy of everyone of their users going "oh geee, I've been using claude for 6 months but I just read this random guy on slashdot saying it can't count 'r' in 'strawberry', and now I see the light and I'm dropping it THIS INSTANT" is not going to happen. And even speaking of the stock market, I doubt you're actually putting your money where your mouth is and are shorting Anthropic, are you? No of course not, bet you have some excuse about "market staying irrational longer than you can stay solvent" or something.

The truth lies somewhere between "all AI will crash out demand" and "there's a need for all these new datacenters being built and the demand will continue to outpace build-out." I'd say there are approximately zero chances that all the datacenters we're currently contemplating building out will remain useful once the overall AI market begins the course correction that's bound to happen when some of the more nebulous fantasyland nonsense doesn't come to pass quickly enough to serve the business sectors that are currently driving the future demand, while there will remain a segment of the AI currently in use that will remain useful. I just don't think the fantasies are all supportable, nor do I think AI will just *POOF* disappear.

But this "AI will replace all jobs and take over the world" thing will come crashing down at some point. Even as the owner class clings desperately to it in the hopes of no longer having to rely on labor to continue to build wealth. That fantasy can only propel itself so far. It remains to be seen if it will be far enough to actually start decimating the labor market, or if the correction via unrealized gains will slam into us before that point.

Comment Re:Wait... (Score 1) 29

We're measuring CPUs in gigawatts, not megabytes or operations per second now? Dudes, the goal isn't to waste as much energy as possible! That's the most disgusting dick size measuring contest ever!

You clearly didn't get the new dick measuring spec sheets. We clearly ARE trying to waste as much energy as possible. Along with all other resources available. That's what AI is. An outward manifestation of the greed we have worshipped for forty years or more in the United States. Even the framing of it is based on greed. "We have to, or someone else might." It's as tribal and greedy as anything we've ever done. Gotta climb aboard, or you'll get run over by it. Or so we keep getting told.

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