@TheZvi Because everyone’s job is safety. It’s not some fake department with no power to assuage the concerns of outsiders.
Tesla has no safety team and is the safest car.
SpaceX has no safety team and has the safest rocket. Dragon is what NASA trusts most to fly astronauts.
@howdidyouseeme1@OAlexanderDK@lannywarwick2 Greenland has many ideal locations for SSO launches to ~90 deg inclinations which are ideal for solar-hungry satellites like orbital data centers
@JayFivekiller Unironically this is necessary to launch 100,000 Starships a year, which is necessary to make life multi planetary. We are obligated to consolidate the Western Hemisphere under the American flag to save our species.
I will spell it out so everyone gets it:
To win the AI race you need the most compute, data, and energy.
Everyone is working within the same constraints: there's just one internet, just one GPU provider, same competition over data centers, energy suppliers, etc.
Space changes all this.
You don't need permitting for land use, and there's no shortage of energy via solar. You can mass produce satellites and they all talk to each other in a swam via laser links.
The major AI models are all within a few months of each other in terms of competency.
There is no company even within a decade of @spacex in terms of launch capacity or cost.
Going all-in on space-based data centers completely circumvents the bottlenecks everyone else faces. Overnight the competitive landscape has shifted from 'neck and neck race' to '10 year advantage to @spacex and @xai'
The game is already won. It's already checkmate. Elon is all-in on SpaceX going public to raise capital to go all-in on space-based compute. Of course they will win at this point.
>"But starship launch costs will make it cheap enough for other people to deploy space based compute"
Starship launches will be for SpaceX. To compete, you need your own launch company. Nobody else has this, not by a long shot.
>"But everyone was critical of space based data centers a month ago"
People were critical of a 16 square kilometer solar array with dockable Nvidia modules. That isn't how this will go down. Tens of thousands smaller satellites in a constellation, the kind only SpaceX has ever built and operated.
Everything else is a rounding error compared to the market position SpaceX / xAI / Tesla will be in.
> They own the launch capacity
> Therefore they will own the compute capacity
> Therefore they will win the AI race
It's just crazy man.
@maxecowave@DerekdotSpace Excessive barriers to increasing launch cadence can disrupt humanity’s reach to the stars, impact technological advancement, and accelerate societal decay
@vincent1701@DerekdotSpace@DJSnM Even if there ends up being significant impact to all the things stated - it will be more than worth it to enable the expansion of humanity to the stars.
A good reminder that the amount of money that has been poured into “aid” for decolonized Africa would have been enough to pay for multiple colonies on Mars
We could have had Rhodesia and Mars colonization; instead we have neither, and a bevy of tin pot dictators with Swiss bank accounts
Why don’t we just
solve the need for non-fedgov UBI by letting X train on idle neurons via Neuralink hosting while customers sleep, in exchange for a monthly stipend
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