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On 12/11/2025 at 12:22 PM, Tuco said:

That is fucking hysterical.  Let me do a quick list of issues with that approach (without having access to the article):

- Cooling.  Yeah, space is cold, but it is also vacuum insulated.  The only way you lose heat is through radiation, so you would need massive heat sink panels and a cooling system that routed the heat from the servers to those heat syncs.  I'd love to see the calculation on a 1 GW data center, but I am guessing acres and acres of heat sinks.  

- Maintenance.  You'd need to have permanent staff to maintain the data center.  Ok, maybe that could reduced through robots, but sooner or later you are going to need a human to do something.  

-Energy.  Similar to the cooling issue, you need bring in energy.  Solar panels are the obvious solution, but a shit ton of solar panels.  (I think the solar panels would be smaller than the heat sinks, as you are exchanging heat with the sun.  (5000K to ~300K for energy incoming vs. ~300K to ~0K for energy discharge.) 

- Material transfers.  Computer parts wear out.  Constantly and with significant mass for a large data center.  You'd need to be launching computer parts regularly just to replace drives. 

 

 

Bro, chill. You don't get to grift trillions more by coming up with constraints... unless you're telling everyone you're raising trillions to overcome those constraints. 

iow, these problems are the solution.

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6 minutes ago, Slacks said:

Bro, chill. You don't get to grift trillions more by coming up with constraints... unless you're telling everyone you're raising trillions to overcome those constraints. 

iow, these problems are the solution.

Slacks gets it.

He may have the inside track on the CFO position in Brisketexan's Enterprise of Utterly Shameless Scams and Grifts and Fraud and Other Nefarious Shit, Inc.

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34 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Slacks gets it.

He may have the inside track on the CFO position in Brisketexan's Enterprise of Utterly Shameless Scams and Grifts and Fraud and Other Nefarious Shit, Inc.

We might as well take another run at it!

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24 minutes ago, Slacks said:

We might as well take another run at it!

When all is said and done, and this era of crime and grift has come to an end, and you and I sit together amongst the rubble, drinking homemade liquor from hollowed out gourds, I am convinced that our greatest regret will be "man.....why the fuck didn't we get in on that shit and get while the gettin' was good?"

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7 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

When all is said and done, and this era of crime and grift has come to an end, and you and I sit together amongst the rubble, drinking homemade liquor from hollowed out gourds, I am convinced that our greatest regret will be "man.....why the fuck didn't we get in on that shit and get while the gettin' was good?"

My problem is I have an idea and I think "This is stupid. No one would fall for this". But they would...because they're stupid.

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6 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

When all is said and done, and this era of crime and grift has come to an end, and you and I sit together amongst the rubble, drinking homemade liquor from hollowed out gourds, I am convinced that our greatest regret will be "man.....why the fuck didn't we get in on that shit and get while the gettin' was good?"

"We should open a BBQ joint on Mars. How much do you think we can raise? 20?

33 minutes ago, cmontexas said:

AI needs to have the same regulations as nuclear research

Go on....

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1 minute ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

My problem is I have an idea and I think "This is stupid. No one would fall for this". But they would...because they're stupid.

So, you're in, right?

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2 minutes ago, Slacks said:

"We should open a BBQ joint on Mars. How much do you think we can raise? 20?

I presume the "20" is in reference to "billion."  And the answer is "absolutely yes."

I have a black turtleneck.  I will get on a stage with chairs with chrome arms.  We will have me interviewed by a really hot blonde, but she's tastefully dressed.  I will speak of our "vision" and "unstoppable, limitless future."   After that, my friend...it's all boats and ho's for Slacks and Brisket.  I'm thinking that Pescado will be our director of marketing.  And by that, I mean he'll be responsible for procuring the ho's that will be on our rented yacht as party favors for the PE types itching to send us their billions.

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16 minutes ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

My problem is I have an idea and I think "This is stupid. No one would fall for this". But they would...because they're stupid.

Once again, I’m the outlier. I’m working through a complex parcel shipping server and fulfillment system messaging issue, and the infrastructure team recommended a load balancer to throttle the traffic to the currently overwhelmed parcel system complete with SYN, ACK, PSH, FIN messages. I described what the infra team recommended for a Monday action plan meeting and asked claude to make some images. 10 minutes of prompts resulted in pretty good images to facilitate the proposed multi-phase solution discussion with non-technical leadership. Sorry snagit.

Haters gonna hate.

 

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23 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

Only if it’s AI BBQ

 

19 minutes ago, Hank Kingsley said:

Served with Big Red Planet soda (BIg Red mixed with beef tallow and ivermectin) 

 

 

Sounds like we got us two new members of the board of Brisketexan's Enterprise of Utterly Shameless Scams and Grifts and Fraud and Other Nefarious Shit, Inc., gents.

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29 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

 

Sounds like we got us two new members of the board of Brisketexan's Enterprise of Utterly Shameless Scams and Grifts and Fraud and Other Nefarious Shit, Inc., gents.

We need a better acronym 

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2 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

 

 

Every year, I think all the folks watching this drivel will suddenly wake up, as if from a deep slumber, and get hit with the realization they've been duped for all these years.  And every year, I am disappointed.

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3 hours ago, cmontexas said:

AI needs to have the same regulations as nuclear research

I'm going to start collections of photos of various politicians' family members (wives and mothers) and start generating lots and lots of AI porn using those photos.

Wouldn't take too much spreading that around before Congress gets interested.

Blow Up Yes GIF by Zypto

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In another thread we were discussing the classic political horseshoe theory and specifically how the GFC created people like Elizabeth Warren and Steve Bannon and that he outrage for Wall St was pretty bipartisan. That made me think AI is another unifier of people in a class warfare way, as I read this quote this morning:

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Steve Bannon says AI needs more regulation, calling it “the most dangerous technology in the history of mankind” that will lead to a “jobs apocalypse.” That mirrors some of the same concerns expressed by left-leaning Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.

Elites and billionaires versus everyone else.

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I think 99% of our problems are economic.  That we are turning into a nation of a really small number of haves and a whole lot of have nots whose futures look pretty bleak.  That the culture wars are being drummed up by activist billionaires to get the 99% to blame each other for their life's woes.  It's the black person, the christian person, the liberal woman, the conservative male!  They are the source of your pain.  It's not me, the billionaire CEO who sent your factory to China, or replaced you with automation, who took away the ability for the you to make a living and accrue savings.  Sure, those saved wages may have wound up in my and my shareholder's pockets.  But, I'm your friend.  I just want to make the world a better place.  I want to make it great again for you.  Trust me.  Believe me.

Tomorrow is a brighter day.  You'll see.  Wait until AI really gets going.  It's your friend, you know.  It's going to help you.  It will make you better.  It won't eliminate jobs.  It will create them!   New, unforeseeable industries!  And even if some jobs are eliminated, we'll altruistically embrace socialism for the first time ever and give you UBI.  All it costs is your reason to get out of bed in the morning.  It will be glorious and great and a golden age of prosperity for us all!  Don't forget to vote for me on November 13th.

Fuck.  Off.

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30 minutes ago, Goredho said:

I think 99% of our problems are economic.  That we are turning into a nation of a really small number of haves and a whole lot of have nots whose futures look pretty bleak.  That the culture wars are being drummed up by activist billionaires to get the 99% to blame each other for their life's woes.  It's the black person, the christian person, the liberal woman, the conservative male!  They are the source of your pain.  It's not me, the billionaire CEO who sent your factory to China, or replaced you with automation, who took away the ability for the you to make a living and accrue savings.  Sure, those saved wages may have wound up in my and my shareholder's pockets.  But, I'm your friend.  I just want to make the world a better place.  I want to make it great again for you.  Trust me.  Believe me.

Tomorrow is a brighter day.  You'll see.  Wait until AI really gets going.  It's your friend, you know.  It's going to help you.  It will make you better.  It won't eliminate jobs.  It will create them!   New, unforeseeable industries!  And even if some jobs are eliminated, we'll altruistically embrace socialism for the first time ever and give you UBI.  All it costs is your reason to get out of bed in the morning.  It will be glorious and great and a golden age of prosperity for us all!  Don't forget to vote for me on November 13th.

Fuck.  Off.

I pretty much agree.  I think the American teaching that your life goal is to gain as much money as possible in whatever ways necessary has also made people lose sight of any other part of existence.  People are sinking into an abyss of selfishness and ignorance and they don't even know why.

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4 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

I pretty much agree.  I think the American teaching that your life goal is to gain as much money as possible in whatever ways necessary has also made people lose sight of any other part of existence.  People are sinking into an abyss of selfishness and ignorance and they don't even know why.

Yep.  The oligarchs have convinced themselves, perhaps understandably, that their wealth means they are intellectually and morally superior to everyone else in every field of endeavor.

What's nuts is how many peons actually believe this too.

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9 minutes ago, HenryJames said:

 

These guys are bored and having that much money you can dump a ton into anything and make it work. 

These people are completely disconnected from reality because they have no way to connect or be grounded to reality. 

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5 minutes ago, HenryJames said:

 

This raises something interesting.

I abandoned a career in engineering because I didn't believe that I was sufficiently creative to make a living or a career out of creating solutions to problems.  My lack of genuine creativity is probably a pretty accurate self-analysis.

What I perhaps failed to take into account there is that a good bit of "innovation" or at least engineering problem-solving is recycling and re-applying known ideas and solutions to different problems.  Which is about all that AI is capable of doing.

I think real creativity, most obviously seen in the arts (music, visual art), is different from that sort of "problem-solving."  Maybe I am wrong on this.  There is certainly a continuum or spectrum.

 

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6 minutes ago, immamac said:

These guys are bored and having that much money you can dump a ton into anything and make it work. 

These people are completely disconnected from reality because they have no way to connect or be grounded to reality. 

If you have a million dollars, you have the same wealth gap between you and a person with one thousand dollars that a billionaire has with you.

It’s ridiculous to expect the billionaire to be able to even conceive of the problems of people with a net worth of less than a million dollars, let alone fix them.

So why do we keep looking to them for leadership?

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28 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

This raises something interesting.

I abandoned a career in engineering because I didn't believe that I was sufficiently creative to make a living or a career out of creating solutions to problems.  My lack of genuine creativity is probably a pretty accurate self-analysis.

What I perhaps failed to take into account there is that a good bit of "innovation" or at least engineering problem-solving is recycling and re-applying known ideas and solutions to different problems.  Which is about all that AI is capable of doing.

I think real creativity, most obviously seen in the arts (music, visual art), is different from that sort of "problem-solving."  Maybe I am wrong on this.  There is certainly a continuum or spectrum.

 

 I think the problem(s) that AI would have in engineering problem solving include:

- AI is all about replicating patterns and interpolating within data.  I think most of the creative solutions in engineering are either novel or pulled from a different application - breaking the pattern.  AI is not going to do that.  (It's the same reason why AI is shitty at writing jokes - many jokes rely on "subversion of expectations" while AI is good at matching the expectation from the pattern.) 

- Most technology owners aren't going to make their stuff public. The tech companies building the data centers sure as shit aren't sharing the designs publicly.  Without data to train on, there is no AI. 

- AI is currently making obvious mistakes.  That is much less problematic than when it makes fundamental mistakes that "look" right.  It's going to get harder and harder to tell what was engineered vs. what was pattern-matched. 

So, I think there is an opportunity for AI to do extremely common types of designs that are publicly available through permitting.  I'm thinking residential building designs maybe.  For 95% of housing, you aren't looking to innovate.  Maybe road design, although it's likely I am underestimating the complexity there.     

I think AI is currently a good tool for certain aspects of engineering, but it's one of many, many tools.    

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