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Beyond that what about protecting against latch-ups and bit flips due to radiation? The environment is significantly worse in space so short term faults and long term damage should be a concern. There's a reason why radiation hardened hardware uses chips with really large features.


Yeah I was wondering about that too, the far-greater exposure to radiation... I don't know anything about how well-mitigated that is these days, but I'm sure it's a huge factor they would have in mind?


The resulting LLMs will have space-brain-bit-rot.


I have an internet subscription for comments like this. Thanks for making my monday morning.




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