[martey]

OP's alt text makes it clear that by "Galapagos Island" they mean Vancouver. I assumed that this was some sort of local nickname, but all of the references to "Galápagos of Canada" I could find are talking about Haida Gwaii instead.

[dan-robertson]

I think it’s just a metaphor for being isolated from the wider tech community.

[pluc]

Nobody calls it that.

[skrebbel]

Yeah I was like “woa a PGConf on the galapagos, i gotta get my ass to one if those!”

[progbits]

Realizing he's just using it to mean remote place in terms of AI bubble (Vancouver! What does that make all the other places that are not major tech hubs?) was a bummer.

Who cares about AI, I wanted to read about living in Galapagos

[mattlondon]

I visited a decade or so ago. Most of the islands you are forbidden from staying overnight on. No running water. No power. No phone signal.

You're going to need a big big solar panel to run local inference during the day, but luckily there is plenty of sun!

[fragmede]

Looks like there is Starlink though! https://dplnews.com/cnt-ecuador-y-starlink-conectan-las-4-is...

[fuzzfactor]

Could be upscale compared to Dry Tortugas, which is obviously less of a "remote" location.

https://science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-observatory/dry-tortuga...

[MomsAVoxell]

I'm saddened to have gotten this far and had my bubble burst, I legitimately thought someone was on the real GI's and was able to compose such a treatise, nevertheless.

[ballsac]

You think humans consuming the Galápagos Islands is something worth aspiring to?

[MomsAVoxell]

Its more that I had hoped that someone with clear AI psychosis was in the right place for them to step back from that precipice and that we might all learn something valuable from observing it.