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Post by raegis »

keepamovin wrote: post #656
rainsford wrote: post #548

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We also shouldn't overlook the fact that the proposal entirely glosses over the implication of the alternative benefits we might realize if humanity achieved the incredible engineering and technical capacity necessary to make this version of space AI happen. Think about it. Elon conjures up a vision of the future where we've managed to increase our solar cell manufacturing capacity by two whole orders of magnitude an…

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I once had a job mopping floors and was quite successful at it, even if I say so myself. Based on my experience, do you think it is reasonable for me to claim that I will eventually develop techniques for cleaning the oceans of all plastic waste? Folks are criticizing the pie in the sky claims, not that they can do anything at all.

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Post by techblueberry »

TheBlight wrote: post #499
taurath wrote: post #468

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We don’t even have a habitable structure in space when the ISS falls, there is no world in which space datacenters are a thing in the next 10, I’d argue even 30 years. People really need to ground themselves in reality. Edit: okay Tiangong - but that is not a data center.

Ok then short SpaceX stock when it IPOs.

Why would you short the stock?

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Post by lugao »

keepamovin wrote: post #653
lugao wrote: post #608

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Only people who never interacted with data center reliability think it's doable to maintain servers with no human intervention.

Whoa there, space-faring sysadmin. You really want that off-world contract tho?

Haha, hard pass on the job. I prefer my oxygen at 1 atm.

I'm not a data center technician myself, but I have deep respect for those folks and the complexity they manage. It's quite surprising the market still buys Musk's claims day after day.

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Post by tagalog »

Can we at least agree this is an awesome thing to try?

Way more exciting than spending $70 billion on VR like Meta did when we all just wanted to play games.

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Post by nprateem »

titzer wrote: post #550
gok wrote: post #45

> it is possible to put 500 to 1000 TW/year of AI satellites into deep space, meaningfully ascend the Kardashev scale and harness a non-trivial percentage of the Sun’s power We currently make around 1 TW of photovoltaic cells per year, globally. The proposal here is to launch that much to space every 9 hours, complete with attached computers, continuously, from the moon. edit: Also, this would capture a very trivial…

I couldn't believe that was an actual quote from the article. It is. These people are legit insane.

No it's just Musk's Big Idea for spacex to hype it before IPO. It's their version of FSD, robots etc.

You've got to hand it to him, he is a bullshitter par excellence.

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Post by adventured »

elihu wrote: post #627
rainsford wrote: post #548

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We also shouldn't overlook the fact that the proposal entirely glosses over the implication of the alternative benefits we might realize if humanity achieved the incredible engineering and technical capacity necessary to make this version of space AI happen. Think about it. Elon conjures up a vision of the future where we've managed to increase our solar cell manufacturing capacity by two whole orders of magnitude an…

Honestly, there's not a lot else I can think of if your goal is find some practical and profitable way to take advantage of relatively cheap access to near-Earth space. Communication is a big one, but Starlink is already doing that. One of the things space has going for it is abundant cheap energy in the form of solar power. What can you do with megawatts of power in space though? What would you do with it? People ha…

Bezos has been pushing manufacturing-in-space for a long time, as a ideal candidate for what to do in space that you might prefer to not do on Earth. Robotics, AI automation, manufacturing - combo it in space, let the robots manufacture for us in space. Abundant energy, low concerns about most forms of pollution. We'll need to dramatically improve our ability to transit mass to and from cheaply first of course (we're obviously talking many decades into the future).
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