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dusk-dawn orbit is a thing if you don’t care too hard about where exactly to put it

but it’s gonna be so fucking expensive, what they’re trading off so it’s even remotely worth it? do they think it’s outside of any jurisdiction?

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dusk-dawn orbit is a thing if you don’t care too hard about where exactly to put it

yeah I thought about that but I took it in light of “data center”, i.e. presuming that you’d want continuous availability of that. part of what I mean with it being worth a long essay - there’s a couple of ways to configure the hypothetical way this would operate, and each has significant impacts on the shape of the thing

but it’s gonna be so fucking expensive

yep. that’s the thing that’s so wild about this fairy picture. option 1) make your entire compute infra earthside[0], launch it all, and get … the node compute equivalent of 3 stacked raspberry and a 2017 gpu, at a costpoint in the high 4 digits or more… or option 2, where you just shove a dc full of equipment for the price of like 20 such nodes, and have the compute equivalent of a significant number of mid-range hosters

even if (and this is extreme wand waving) you could crack non-planetbound production for the entire process and fab all this shit in space (incl. the mining and refining and …) as a way to reduce costs, you still have all these other problems too. and it’s not like this is likely to happen any time soon

guess they better hope 'ole ray has another vision soon, to get a fixed date for the singularity. can’t see how you do your scrum planning for this fantasy without a target date provided by the singularitian prophet

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wait it’s all ray kurzweil?

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dunno if the aforementioned jazz is (I didn’t check), but rayboi is the easiest “and then compute things just become magically solved” touchstone for me to remember

too many of the fucking nutjobs to properly track who’s the steering committee for each insane idea

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