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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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I get what you're saying.
I hate when they make us untangle these linguistic knots. I think this is a motte-and-bailey^1^ situation, like how the oppo respond to AI (LLM) criticism by implying we don't like AI (ML i.e. the old thing that works).
They likewise want datacenters (Big Hot Steaming Shitbox of GPUs...IN SPACE) not datacenters (radiation hardened, multiply-redundant, low-power industrial CPU clusters...IN SPACE)
^1^ ugh sorry having a brain fart and cant think of a better term
Edit: I am reliably informed that I let one go over my head. Apologies!
In my defense, I would be entirely unsurprised if you turned out to be an expert in this stuff lol
I was just riffing on the AI "moderate" talking points. Building a data center in space is prima facie ludicrously stupid and you would need an extremely unusual justification to even consider it. I was pretending to act like a moron who blindly accepts there's probably a serious reason why they make sense just because some dumbass hype man said so.
that /s tag really is useful… i wasn’t sure if you were serious or not
That's a calculated risk I take with deadpan humor. This time I cut it close.