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Comment Re:This is concerning (Score 1) 147

even if i make very optimal assumptions, that's like 100 million dollars for just launching that 100 million dollars of cooling into space (but something closer to a billion is more likely, certainly if you also consider material/construction costs).
And then you still need to generate that MW, and get that into space, etc...

That's about the price i find for a 100MW data center on earth.

Noone is saying that it's impossible, but the cost difference between both is just insane!

Comment Re:This is concerning (Score 3, Informative) 147

That it's huge enough to radiate that energy away.
It receives about 300W/(m^2), and is able to radiate enough into space to be in an equilibrium at the current temperature.

A single nvidia h200 server requires about 10kW of power, so if we assume equal radiant cooling as earth to keep a similar temperature to earth, that's 300 square meter of just cooling radiators for just that (and somehow figure out how to prevent those radiators from heating up in the sun, so probably also 300 square meter of heat shield to shield them or so?.
Then of course you also need 10kW of solar panels that also heat up and need their cooling, and all that for just a single h200 server.

Sounds very economical and practical to shoot that into space.

But yeah, how about you stop acting all smug and start actually answering how it would work? Because a simple napking calculatiion shows this would be a space project larger than anything we've ever done before.

Our biggest space project so far, the ISS produces about 80 kW of power, so would be enough for 8 h200 servers.

But yeah, this is all very practical, and not just more hype bullshit.

Comment Re:This is concerning (Score 1) 147

So rather than multiple kilowats going through your AI server, you're gonna run on a fraction of that?
Basically all power used by your chip is the power you have to dissipate, which is already a challenge on earth where we can use air to get rid of the heat.
And the claim is not that it's possible, but more efficient in space.

Comment Re:Might Be Something, Maybe (Score 2) 72

... which would make grapheneos the perfect choice for you.

first of all, Whatsapp doesn't even need any of the google stuff, install it via an alternate store, and it works just fine.

but grapheneos also allows you to easily make multiple accounts, have some of the apps that require a google account or whatever? put them on a different account, and switch to it when needed, and you can keep your main account as unshitty as you want. switching accounts is really fast, so not much of a bother.

I love how people are already complaining about all the apps they need that they couldn't possibly run on grapheneos, while it runs everything just fine, and you can even nicely compartementalize everything, and make a work account on your mobile phone with stupid stuff they require, that you don't want on your real account XD.

Comment Re:If your boss is forcing you to use AI (Score 1) 101

As if the productivity of a programmer is so easily measured.

Even if you just compare 2 programmers across a month of working on a project, and one of both is making significantly more features than the other. If the other is writing more maintainable code, and in the end can keep up his pace for longer while having to fix fewer & shallower bugs, who's then the most productive?

And how productive is the senior developer that's doing more codereviews and is also a bit of an architect on the project?

Programmer productivity isn't so easy to measure, and i wouldn't be surprised that if they do measure, they might see some speed gain in some cases, but that can result in technical debt that they'll pay in the future due to people trusting AI output too much ^^'.....

Comment Re:Make that 50 years or longer (Score 4, Insightful) 157

Nobody thinks he's doing all the work.
But we all see he's constantly making up bullshit without verifying it the people that are supposed to implement it because he's perpetually desperate for attention, and needs to keep promising new bullshit to keep the stock prices high.

Comment Re: Misleading title (Score 5, Interesting) 74

It's not the same information in terms of privacy.
layoffs.xls is a document that's not shared.

But if the company uses a platform like slack where people can clearly see people disappearing, then they share that data and can't possibly claim people aggregating the data they shared have done anything wrong...

Comment Re:This is one of the problems with "AI" (Score 1) 39

The intelligence would refer to how often it makes decent output based on the input.

It's obviously better at that than anything we've had before, but even if it gives a qualitative result 90% of the times, that means it's completely not suited to tackle bigger problems without having a human constantly weed out those 10% of bad answers.

And not sure if you've used AI for programming, but it does have some capabilities & 'creativity'. In some way it obviously is a next generation, more natural, search engine. But it's actually capable of returning code based on multiple things in its dataset, and combine them to something unique that fulfills what i requested from it.

Now, is that 'intelligence', since even before AI you could spend an eternity discussing what intelligence actually is, that's for you to decide if you'd call that intelligence. But it can offer some value, and at least for some definitions of intelligence you can come up with, it will satisfy those. But certainly not all definitions of intelligence.

Comment Re:AI spread now price gauging Apple products. (Score 1) 47

I don't know? Why did Elon Musk get on a stage with a chainsaw promising to cut the US budget by trillions, and ended up not getting the government to spend any less, but was able to stop aid to third world countries, which will most likely result in the deaths of millions?
He did all that just to get a bit of attention...

Why would they do that? Because we're inferior to them and they have no need for us. Why keep the risk of keeping us around, we could revolt at some point you know.

Comment Re:AI spread now price gauging Apple products. (Score 1) 47

Just hypothetically suppose that AI fulfills all those promises.

As long as there's something we humans can do that robots/AI can't do, therer's economical incentive to keep us working as much as possible on that, the same hours we work now, as it gives you an edge vs economies that don't do that.

Our productivity today is already multiples of decades ago, and somehow we're still working just as much, why would anything ever change that?

And if literally everything can be automated, how long before those in power get bored of us, kill most people and keep just enough human cattle around to have the human race continue? Why would they need to keep us all around?

Comment Re: Re-purposed as a marketing buzz-word (Score 1) 90

I like your follow up comment, but please don't strawman me. I replied to your assertion of " the marketing of this product implies to a user that your images are never at risk of being hacked", and i just replied that it has to always be decrypted somewhere, and that somewhere can be compromised. So this isn't the property of any E2E encryption.

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