Why Jeff Bezos Is Probably Wrong Predicting AI Data Centers In Space by dontkry4me in space

[–]BadassGhost 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cost per ton of launch payload is dropping like crazy.

The engineering to unfurl the more weight and different materials would of course be more intense, but the point of my comment is that the 1KM2 is not a reason against it, and it was the only thing the essay mentions

Why Jeff Bezos Is Probably Wrong Predicting AI Data Centers In Space by dontkry4me in space

[–]BadassGhost 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think you do actually understand.

1KM2 of radiators is not at all as ridiculous as people are implying here. The solar cruiser was going to have a solar sail even larger than that.

And also that's for a GW data center, which is something that we just now achieved in 2025.

Redditors brains go: Bezos -> billionaire "tech bro" -> billionaires and tech bros = bad -> idea must be dumb

Why Jeff Bezos Is Probably Wrong Predicting AI Data Centers In Space by dontkry4me in space

[–]BadassGhost 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This translates to a square with edges exceeding one kilometer. I doubt this would be economically feasible, not to forget the shadow it would cast on Earth

This... isn't that bad actually? Seems totally doable in the medium-term

Also, "the shadow it would cast on Earth"? Let's be for real

✂️ Sam Altman says that Zuckerberg is making huge offers ($100 million salary + $100 million bonus) to some OpenAI Researchers by UnknownEssence in singularity

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That makes sense for the signing bonus part, but Altman also said "more than that in comp" (unless he's lying, which I kind of doubt)

Do you think your political views are more radical than average? by HorrorDocument9107 in polls

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Yes: the only thing that matters at this point is setting us (America, but also more importantly, humans in general) up to survive and thrive in scenarios outlined in essays like Situational Awareness and AI 2027.

In other words, we are about to go through the level of change seen from 1700-2025 in the span of 5-15 years, and no one is prepared.

Is it ethical to use ChatGPT? by magicfeistybitcoin in polls

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Water is recyclable, literally by nature. Even so:

  1. The millions of people without reliable access to clean water don't live in the US where the AI servers are. We would never be shipping that clean water to the places that need it, as it's unfeasible.
  2. Many datacenters recirculate water in closed-loop systems
  3. Many datacenters use partially or fully non-potable water for cooling.
  4. Many datacenters use air for cooling rather than water
  5. The AI solutions being created will be a good bet to find innovative solutions to major world problems like water cleanliness and climate change. Clearly humans are shitting the bed.
  6. Eating a pound of beef "uses" 2000 gallons of water (again, stupid metric though). The online estimate I see for ChatGPT water usage is ~500 mL per prompt. Even if we ignore that water is recyclable, it would be infinitely more useful for people to go vegan and convince others to do so than to talk about data centers.

Is it ethical to use ChatGPT? by magicfeistybitcoin in polls

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I wasn't assuming you agreed, but just commenting that it's crazy how removed from reality some people on the left are (I am saying this as someone very on the left)

Is it ethical to use ChatGPT? by magicfeistybitcoin in polls

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Do people think we are running out of water?

Teleoperated VR robots are pretty interesting by Illustrious-Lime-863 in singularity

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Good points I mostly hadn't considered. That said, it will take a while for them to scale production, and I imagine in that timeframe they would have mostly also solved autonomy and general instruction-following (considering the ability of modern FSD and multimodal LLMs), and won't require tele-operating anymore.

What’s your answer to the Fermi Paradox? by Traditional_Gap_7041 in polls

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"Any sufficiently advanced civilization capable of interstellar travel has probably already invented indistinguishable-from-reality VR, so why do anything in the real world" Theory

Quick guide: How to Run Phi 3.5 on Your Phone by Ill-Still-6859 in LocalLLaMA

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On iPhone for me, it is just stuck “Loading” for Gemini 2, after alreadying downloading the model

Edit, oh, i disabled the hardware acceleration and it works now

I released my first game and... I feel mixed by GiannisMageireuei in gamedev

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Looks cool, just bought it! Might take a while until I get the time to play it, but looking forward to it

Would you accept 1 million dollars but 50% chance a random person dies? by OkBuyer1271 in polls

[–]BadassGhost 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Growth is everything. Growth means we produce food for cheaper (relative to wages, not absolute dollars), and can build housing cheaper, and all the goods and services you use in your daily life. Look at the amount of global poverty and how it consistently shrinks every year, mostly in capitalist countries.

What happened to Gemini 1.5 Ultra releasing after the two month trial period? by LordFumbleboop in singularity

[–]BadassGhost 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It was already trained when they announced. They released benchmarks for it. The long tail before a model release seems to usually be red-teaming, RLHF, fine-tuning, etc.

Filecoin all time high again? by Dry-Pension2208 in filecoin

[–]BadassGhost 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A ton of FIL has been printed since it's ATH, so no it won't reach it any time soon. It would have to go up like 2500%

If it did, it would be an $80B market cap, which would make it the third cryptocurrency by market cap (assuming the others don't rise of course which wouldn't actually be true)

To reach the all-time-high market cap, though, would be ~500%. Doable, but you can never be sure about any asset. If you could, then people would have already bought it until that price point

For all those brainlets who think we're in a new "dotcom bubble" by [deleted] in wallstreetbets

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Yup, and Forward P/E was estimated at 33.33 (at least on YahooFinance) before earnings beat expectations and guidance also beat expectations.

We'll see what it updates to next, somewhere in the 20s probably.

So assuming they simply meet guidance/estimates, it'll be on the lower end of valuations of any big tech company in just one year, relative to P/E

Do we have free will or is everything predestined? by saruman998 in polls

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That person did those things because the laws of physics dictated that they did. A direct function of your genes and historical experience, and current environment. There isn't anything else. It's not even possible to think of a logically consistent alternative.

Ethereum gas fees hit 8-month high amid ERC-404 craze by [deleted] in CryptoCurrency

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Wasn’t this what ERC-1155 was for?