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Comment on the other hand (Score 1) 44

These things are giant agriculture robots that can shred or squish or dis-arm you in a blink.
The guidance system is complex and (of course) requires accurate and precise calibration,
interacting with whatever is attached to the bus and mechanicals.
You can see Deere's potential legal liabilities here.

There's an assumption that salt-of-the-earth farmers will know what they're doing,
will follow all documented procedures and not take shortcuts.
Doubtful. They have other work to do.

Comment Re: Bet against Elon if you like (Score 5, Interesting) 190

Giant black-body radiators are required. This is the the number one reason why space data centers are not practical. The radiators would be many times bigger than the satellites themselves. Every watt of energy generated by the solar panels has to be radiated into space. This is not something that can simply be engineered around, as the OP seems to think.

Comment Re:Bet against Elon if you like (Score 4, Insightful) 190

Silly assumptions? A matter of Engineering? What about physics? Maybe listen to real engineers for once. They've been showing us the actual numbers that state clearly this AI data centers are not possible. Sure you can get lots of solar power, but that's not the issue. The issue is cooling, requiring huge radiators that are far bigger than each satellite. Besides the impracticality of it, you have other issues like air pollution (already a problem with starlink deorbiting), light pollution (who needs the stars anyway). Apparently no on in Musk's circle is asking, "but should we do this?"

Comment Re:alito barrett and thomas dissent (Score 2, Interesting) 97

On this and the birthright citizenship ruling it is astounding that any of the justices would have dissented. This is clear-cut constitutional law. The fact that Roberts is willing to throw out a hundred years of precedent on several matters is deeply concerning. It really shows the constitution, the rule of law, the stability of precedent are all just recommendations, conveniences when they serve a political purpose. Otherwise they can be cast aside. Because, why not? It's so liberating to be free from precedent and the constitution. I guess they're not familiar with the whole joojooflop situation where finally being free from the norms that kept you down means losing the entire civilization. It's a bit surreal to even being talking about this.

Comment Re:So what does that mean? (Score 4, Insightful) 57

In truth niether. China isn't that good yet but moving quickly. Anthropic is still at the top of the game for now but won't be there forever and they insist on keeping the models locked up and proprietary. Sooner it later the more open models will win. And hopefully we'll finally get accessible hardware to run them locally.

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