wewbull

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[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 9 points 3 days ago

I think he means the equivalent of car play.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 6 points 4 days ago

Helium does a pretty good job of that too.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

It'll be in shadow at midnight, yes, but not necessarily at any other time. Geostationary orbit is at about 7x the radius of the earth.

As such, the period when in will actually be in shadow is only a short period directly behind the planet.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 3 points 4 days ago

Super heat what in that space? The point is there's nothing to transfer heat to. All you can do is radiate infra-red light.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It would be 20kW for each rack or two. The types of data centre deal they talk about these days are measured in GW of compute. That's 50,000x just for 1GW.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 6 points 4 days ago

One that was 86.

"Oh fuck. They're here. I'll be off now"

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 2 points 1 week ago

A Total Perspective Vortex if you will. Only a true narcissist survives.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 5 points 1 week ago

Just compare it to his videos from 10 years ago.

3 minutes and interesting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OSrvzNW9FE

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 5 points 1 week ago

There's no honour amongst them.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 3 points 1 week ago

Cloud based services in general.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 8 points 1 week ago

Bubbles don't burst for rational reasons. They burst because the lie can't be held together any more.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm 90% certain that none of the resources being "bought" by AI actually have been sold, or created yet.

Indeed. The prices skyrocketed because vendors realised they couldn't get replacement supply in the future. What existed today was all they were going to get.

I'm expecting a glut of supply once those contracts fall through.

Speaking of the auto industry: Is AI a mirage, like the dreams of a working rotary engine?

It is, but I think it's a different type of mirage. The rotary engine does work, but it brings with it significant downsides. Getting the positives without the negatives is the mirage being chased.

AI appears to do one thing, but actually does another. People see it "creating" new things, but it's more like it shreds work up and then glues the pieces together making sure it looks consistent. Train it on one work and it can reproduce that work. Train it on two and it will mash the two. Train it on a billion and it will mash the billion. Nothing creative,. No extrapolation. Just interpolation.

People want the AI promise regardless of the downsides. It just doesn't exist.

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