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.
Discussion
Loading...
@sundogplanets They might be overestimating the effects of nuclear war.
@sundogplanets the scary part imho is all the people who are in a position to accept the implied valuation of these "AI datacentres" and effectively create funny money out of thin air.
I think Elon would put those datacentres up there IF he could, despite consequences. I also think he knows he can't, but need to keep the party going and so... this.
@sundogplanets Is it possible that behind closed doors, Musk et al think Kessler syndrome will reverse climate change? Is that the level of myopic stupidity we could be dealing with here?
I mean, the Epstein class do seem to sincerely believe that technology will somehow save *them*, even if billions of the rest of us are wiped out in the process. 🤷🏻♂️
@sundogplanets If they want to put a server farm in orbit, how about at the L4 or L5 Lagrange points for the Earth-Moon system? They'd be in direct sunlight most of the time, reducing the need for batteries. Less impact on telescopes as well.
For Elon's LLM, let's put it at L3 (Earth/Sun system), which would have some real benefits for the rest of us: with the sun in the way, it would be hard to "talk" to it.
@sundogplanets nearly 10 years ago “we have had enough of experts” today, it has completely come true. The experts are almost totally sidelined.
@sundogplanets considering the mass of material transported to atmosphere by under- and above-ground nuclear tests, that seems to be off by a couple of orders of magnitude.
@sundogplanets Hard to imagine we survived the 1970s-1980s mutually assured destruction era just to end up back in the same stupidity.
@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
@sundogplanets
Musk is a danger to life on earth
@sundogplanets sounds like a true musk legacy
@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.