Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
This is not debate club. Unless it’s amusing debate.
For actually-good tech, you want our NotAwfulTech community
We don't have a choice, give full control to Skynet.
Only it's not Skynet, it's not AGI, it's just LLMs doing things far beyond what they were designed to do, with accidents happening because we imparted agency and intelligence on something that didn't have it. It would almost be better if it was AGI, because at least then we could sort of blame it. This is our own stupidity, nothing more.
We will secure energy dominance by dumping even more money and resources into a technology that is already straining our power grid. But don't worry. The LLM will figure it all out by reciting the Wikipedia page for Fusion Power.
AI is expected to make cutting-edge simulations run “10,000 to 100,000 times faster.”
Turns out it's not good to assume that literally every word that comes out of a tech billionaire's mouth is true. Now everyone else thinks they can get away with just rattling off numbers where their source is they made it the fuck up. I still remember Elon Musk saying a decade ago that he could make rockets 1,000 times cheaper, and so many people just thought it was going to happen.
We need scientists and engineers. We do not need Silicon Valley billionaire visionary innovator genius whizzes with big ideas who are pushing the frontiers of physics with ChatGPT.
“10,000 to 100,000 times faster.”
You know they meant they'd ask a chatbot
True, it is possible to achieve 100,000x speedups if you dispose of the silly restriction of being correct.
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The anthropomorphic personification of magnetohydrodynamics materializes from the ether to laugh in their faces
tbf, when your "normal" rocket construction process involves mass national ratfuckery as inefficient as it was/is...1000x cheaper is actually pretty doable.
It's infrastructure week ya'll
By 60 days from now, the DoE must produce a list — “at least 20 science and technology challenges of national importance” in advanced manufacturing, biotechnology, critical materials, nuclear fission and fusion — yes that’s more vibe nuclear — something quantum, and semiconductors.
And by "biotechnology", I presume this administration means "eugenics", if not some other form of medical pseudoscience.
I'm guessing ivermectin and miasma theory
Probably more reliable than in listening to these morons make up their science off the top of their pointy heads.
not when elon is editing system prompt at 4 am while high on ketamine and his own farts