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by khimaros 32 days ago
not an Elon fan, but i wonder how much the numbers matter in today's world of financial vibes. if he has people who are willing to fund and work on these projects, even at a loss, maybe it can happen anyway? at the end of the day, it's all natural resources and human time and energy. until those are exhausted, the market can remain irrational.
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petilon 32 days ago
Son's point is that even if the idea is solid, it will take at least 10 years to get it to work. That's too long to wait, the winners and losers in the AI race will be decided long before then.

Also: if it does work, all it does is save on the cost of electricity. But just 7% of operating a data center on earth is the cost of electricity. The rest are the chips and other things.

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Zigurd 32 days ago
File that under things that work until they stop working. When Elon's cult stops working, all the comments will be about how that was so inevitable, and of course everyone saw that it was fake. On top of all that, somebody on a prediction market will have made a bet on when the music would stop, and they will now be hailed as a predictive genius. Nothing will have been learned.
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