Space is really good low temperature compute. It’s perfect for hosting quantum computers.
Starcloud
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Re: Starcloud
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Can you please not post comments like this? Thoughtful criticism is welcome, of course, but this sort of thing isn't. Besides breaking the site guidelines, it takes threads in less interesting directions and evokes even worse comments from others. We're trying to avoid that here. " Don't be snarky. " " Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us somethin…
Tbh your moderation is normally very restrained and even handed so was a bit surprising to see you take down several borderline overly snarky comments in a row (that just so happen to be directed against VC investors or YC founders).
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Re: Starcloud
#253Earlier quoted context omitted.
Tbh your moderation is normally very restrained and even handed so was a bit surprising to see you take down several borderline overly snarky comments in a row (that just so happen to be directed against VC investors or YC founders).
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Re: Starcloud
#254If this and/or the policies, leadership, and mindset that enable these kinds of things interest you, I highly recommend Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson. IIRC, they outline data centers in space in his utopian introduction.
Re: Starcloud
#255Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can you please not post comments like this? Thoughtful criticism is welcome, of course, but this sort of thing isn't. Besides breaking the site guidelines, it takes threads in less interesting directions and evokes even worse comments from others. We're trying to avoid that here. " Don't be snarky. " " Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us somethin…
Really, on second look, snark still feels justified here. The issue is with TFA. There is little room for a thoughtful comment in response to something transparent. Some type of submissions will invariably not result in very deep discussion, when the topic itself is so shallow.
We need you (I don't mean you personally, of course, but all commenters here) to follow the site guidelines regardless of how bad an article is or you feel it is.
Someone else being wrong or some other post being bad isn't a reason to make things worse. Doing so just creates a downward spiral, which it's all too easy to fall into.
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Re: Starcloud
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> So, there you have it: "all you have to do" is deploy a few hectares of radiators in space, combined with heat pumps that can dissipate gigawatts of thermal load… Starcloud’s whitepaper suggests a 4 km × 4 km radiator. For comparison, the James Web Space Telescope has a sunshield measuring 21 m × 14 m and the International Space Station measures 109 m × 73 m.
James Webb is a trainwreck. It took 20 years of delays to launch it.
It _was_ a trainwreck. Now it’s in space making great discoveries.
Re: Starcloud
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I thought your question was interesting. The ChatGPT quote was not. If I want to know what an LLM “thinks”, I can ask it. I have more respect for and am more interested in reading people’s thoughts than machine output. I do appreciate your at least labeling at such, so I could skip over it.
If you're under the impression that all the content on here is 100% human, that's probably slightly optimistic, and the reason why I labeled it explicitly rather than regurgitating / rewording. That said, I'd rather read GPT output than skim the meta-discussion that ruins so many HN threads. Totally stoked that we're now contributing to that rather than talking about the actual content.
Re: Starcloud
#258Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can you please not post comments like this? Thoughtful criticism is welcome, of course, but this sort of thing isn't. Besides breaking the site guidelines, it takes threads in less interesting directions and evokes even worse comments from others. We're trying to avoid that here. " Don't be snarky. " " Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us somethin…
Tbh your moderation is normally very restrained and even handed so was a bit surprising to see you take down several borderline overly snarky comments in a row (that just so happen to be directed against VC investors or YC founders).
To me those comments seemed over the line, not borderline! I'd post the same replies wherever I saw comments like that, regardless of who or what they're about.
Re: Starcloud
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I agree, this is makes no sense at all. Can I take the other side of this investment? Like an angel funding round, but selling short?
I think the other side of this is just buying Amazon stock based on the daring prediction that big grey buildings full of servers aren't going anywhere.
Datacenter REITs.
(not investing advice)
Re: Starcloud
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Could they concentrate the energy and beam it down to earth as a source for electricity generation on the ground?
This is the best idea to come out of this whole scheme. Space solar panels are super cheap and efficient? Prove it! Launch them and transmit the energy down. This is orders of magnitude easier than the original proposal -- and yet still nonsensical.
An old idea, impractical not maybe not absolutely impossible. Somehow they made it worse