But. The other points made felt muddled or even contradictory. I either didn't follow the TC guy's explanation closely enough, or the script could have used another pass.

That tagline says it all. This is just pure market manipulation. There's no current path to space-based datacenters being feasible. Launch costs, unrepairable, enormous amounts of solar panels (and thermal rejectors) required. The concept doesn't survive even casual contact with reality.

Ah, I suppose I don't. My comment was poorly worded. However I feel confident that consciousness does not exist anywhere near the current level of fancy linear algebra and statistics that make LLMs work.

Re: Re: Ex Machina movie.

Looking forward to this. I was 'born yesterday' and haven't had any AI interactions outside of reading some google search result summaries. But I'm looking to pivot a proxmox server to try out self hosting ai tools, and have found the landscape to be very cluttered and difficult to find a starting point for someone with no context.

https://community.frame.work/t/feasibility-of-diy-intel-me-n...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Platform_Security_Processo...

Big fan of OpenSCAD[1] and solvespace[2] for making functional 3D prints.

I'm going to branch out a bit here and say GrapheneOS is my favorite thing going on right now.

[1] https://openscad.org/

[2] https://solvespace.com/index.pl

https://www.wardsauto.com/news/ford-scraps-ev-plans-focusing...

Launch costs, unrepairable once in-orbit, more expensive hardware to withstand space and radiation, the engineering problem of dissipating heat into space (check out how ISS does it), latency and cost to get data sent back Earth. "May" not be commercially viable? None of it is commercially viable from first principles.

Absolutely unhinged.

Initially I wanted to write this comment saying buying them would be a bad idea just for the technical debt... But maybe they have the perfect "already vibe coded by humans" software to have an AI company take over.

I felt a knot in my stomach while watching the livestream coverage and hearing "They're doing so much science!" and I wanted to reach into the monitor and ask "Tell me! Give me details!" but instead felt I was watching the tiktok influence bear out on scientific coverage.

Also glad to have discovered Julien Genestoux's article through this one.

As an aside, for a couple of years now I've stalled out on creating/contributing online through a personal blog or my peertube instance. In 2024 my grandfather received a phishing phone call of someone using approximately my voice to ask for bail money. We got lucky that he decided to call me directly to confirm, but that's not a guaranteed outcome and I'm afraid of contributing to making the next phishing attack more potent.

I suppose what I'm saying is that I feel pressured to keep quiet nowadays out of concern for how the web is changing and being taken advantage of.

https://tt-rss.org/

- In the blog post the author finds many extensions plausibly pushing malware or other harm, with Mozilla ostensibly asleep at the wheel. Many plugs the author is working with then disappear, indicating the Moz may be conducting a purge of extensions.