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From 2015, it’s uBeam — never mind reality, here’s the VCs (pivot-to-ai.com)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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your Pivot to AI holiday special!

for the old guard sneers - a quote from our old comrade su3su2u1, who was also after these fuckers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYBhsDkv1v8&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251231-ubeam-from-2015-never-mind-reality-heres-the-vcs - podcast

time: 10 min 15 sec

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[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 2 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

>Reads first paragraph

>Hmm, this sounds like something that is theoretically infeasible to the point of "spending 30 minutes with some basic physics equations on the whiteboard disproves it"

>"$10 million dollars"

>"People did calculations that in an ideal setup..." oh look there it is, no waaay

Like I'm no physicist, you really don't need much more than vague recollections of high-school physics to be like "huh?" at this...