Fun fact to keep you awake tonight: Just had a chat with an atmospheric chemist and the best comparison she could come up with for the pollution that would result from burning up 1 million "AI datacenter" satellites in Earth's atmosphere is a nuclear war.
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@sundogplanets Nuclear war, but without plutonium so a little different.
@sundogplanets I have a bunch of shows in the Techtonic pipeline right now but at *some* point if/when you're available, I'd love to talk with you on the show about this risk
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Musk is a danger to life on earth
@sundogplanets sounds like a true musk legacy
@sundogplanets hopefully I'll be dead already ☠️
@sundogplanets well that sure cheers me up 😳
"AI winter"... truly scary...
@paul_ipv6 Oh god what a horrible term uugghhh I hate that we are talking about this
@sundogplanets @paul_ipv6 I really don't believe this stupid plan is ever going to happen.
Even if they can launch 1000 sats a week, it'll take 20 years (if none fall down). And that's not even taking into consideration the resources needed to build them.
It's more Elon bluster, and just a way for him to get money out of gullible investors. Think Theranos.
There is (unfortunately) plenty of credible schemes to fight.
talking about it in terms like this is how we'll get the press and public more aware. hopefully before it's too late.