Spending all the money you have and all the money you can get and all the money you can promise has a number of side effects, such as gigantic data centres full of high-power chips just to run lyin…
  • o7___o7@awful.systemsEnglish
    2·
    8 hours ago

    I get what you’re saying.

    I hate when they make us untangle these linguistic knots. I think this is a motte-and-bailey1 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

    • bitofhope@awful.systemsEnglish
      5·
      8 hours ago

      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.