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You really can't grasp that GPUs scaled at this level is the most ambitious thing possible? That it will be the foundation of unfathomable technological innovation?

"In space" is the new blockchain.

Every time I hear stuff like this I think of Tim Curry just barely keeping it together during that one cut scene in Red Alert 3, except this time it's the ultra capitalists trying to corrupt space with capitalism.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1Sq1Nr58hM


"corrupt space with capitalism"

I think this is how the masses feel at this point. Progress bad. Capitalism inherently bad. Anything non-natural, bad.


Will it, though?

Perhaps parent was being sarcastic.


> the most ambitious thing possible

really?


Yup lol

why can't they grasp it?

I'm sure these comments will be rational and non-biased by political emotions /s

It's really disturbing how confidently blinded you are by whatever political biases you have.

So reveal the unbiased truth to us please -- what's the real motivation for consolidating these companies?

It's uhhh... clearly explained in the linked announcement.

I think you greatly overestimate humans

The problem IMO is the transition period. A mostly safe system will make the driver feel at ease, but when an emergency occurs and the driver must take over, it's likely that they won't be paying full attention.

We aren’t talking about the average human here.

On average you include sleep deprived people, driving way over the speed limit, at night, in bad weather, while drunk, and talking to someone. FSD is very likely situationally useful.

But you can know most of those adverse conditions don’t apply when you engage FSD on a given trip. As such the standard needs to be extremely high to avoid increased risks when you’re sober, wide awake, the conditions are good, and you have no need to speed.


> On average you include sleep deprived people, driving way over the speed limit, at night, in bad weather, while drunk, and talking to someone. FSD is very likely situationally useful.

Are those people also able to suprevise FSD like the law and Tesla expects them to? That's also a question.


FSD will pull over and stop if it detects the driver has passed out. Can the law do that automatically?

> you greatly overestimate humans

Tesla's FSD still goes full-throttle dumbfuck from time to time. Like, randomly deciding it wants to speed into an intersection despite the red light having done absolutely nothing. Or swerving because of glare that you can't see, and a Toyota Corolla could discern with its radars, but which hits the cameras and so fires up the orange cat it's simulating on its CPU.


Yeah even corollas have better sensors than a Tesla for driving in fog. It's embarrassing.

LLM is already an outdated term in terms of frontier models. Continued build out of ever larger data centers will drive the coming wave of robotics with varying forms of world models. People who claim LLMs won’t change the world are stuck in some sort of tunnel vision, IMO. I don’t think Nvidia is at risk of the AI industry falling flat. More like from large companies creating their own chips specific to their needs (ie Tesla). Although there aren’t many companies in the world that are THAT ambitious. I think Nvidia continues its general trend upwards.

There will always be an incentive to scale data centers. Better algorithms just mean more bang per gpu, not that “well, that’s enough now, we’ve done it”.

4 million is absolutely nothing for vested interests trying to steer a US presidential election.

Similar to the idea that electric cars are net worse for the environment because some of the materials used to make them. Worse than 20 years of burning gasoline in an ICE car? It's so ridiculous.


it depends where your electricity comes from actually. In west Virginia it comes from coal so is worse than a hybrid but still better than non-hybrid gas cars (in terms of CO2)


No it's not. The efficiency of an EV Motor > efficiency of ICEV motor. Even with 100% black coal. The carbon is reduced by about 30% IIRC (that number can and does improve as the grid greens).



That's an 11 year old study that is no longer correct based on the modern electric grid.

Also focusing on only carbon footprint is misleading. EVs pollute far less overall, even on the 2015 electric grid.


I await your updated study to back up your claims


I shall not explain the obvious


In 2023, coal-fired electric power plants accounted for 86% of West Virginia's total electricity net generation

https://www.eia.gov/state/?sid=WV

Looks like west virginia is still a state where hybrid-electric vehicles have lower emissions than all-electric ones. Who knew.


It's kind of bizarre to see the far right and far left circle to the same misguided big oil conclusions, although for different reasons. The right doesn't want their traditional oil/coal industries threatened. The left is kind of... just against the continued growth of technology/industry/humanity.


Can you point at criticism from the left? I haven’t noticed it.


Mostly just saying the sentiment I've seen on reddit comments or X posts, stuff like this:

https://x.com/duncancampbell/status/1647109450438955008

I'm not saying the idea is institutionalized by the democrats, but I think musk/tesla hatred is kinda driving it


That would be a weird way to get at Musk, as there’s plenty out there that avoids his toxic touch.


But he specifically points out that those a Right Wing talking points!


It’s scary enough giving access just to my local database. Claude has found inventive ways to twice wipe out my tables this week, despite Claude.md instructions to the contrary.

(Of course I’m also to blame)


If you're on postgres happy to have you try what we built at Ardent (https://tryardent.com). Our agent makes instant copies of your db for the agent to operate on so there's 0 risk for your db to ever get wiped.

email me -> vikram@tryardent.com

We're building support for snowflake too if that's something you use


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