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thinly veiled metaphor alert! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1055/s-…

it's very important to live a virtuous life. work hard, be a good friend, hold to your principles, respect and build up your colleagues, ascend the kardashev scale, conquer the high frontier

feeling the type 2 fun right now. the kardashev type 2 fun

explaining the importance of talking to supply chain to an engineer: "ok so imagine your base just ran out of copper"

"building the infrastructure of the future" means that i should be able to put in a logistics request for medium power poles on the moon and have launches automatically enqueued to deliver them to me

I love the incredible people of SpaceX beyond words

@lougrims The space radiation causes the AIs to get cancer

@lougrims AI datacenters will never work because all the phlogiston in the GPUs leaks out when exposed to vacuum

The whole AI datacenter in space discourse is so bad. You have illiterate AI bros being dunked on by people who took high school physics (space is not cold! vacuum in an insulator!). Themselves being dunked on by STEM graduates (Stefan-boltzmann! only 100m^2 of radiators!). 1/2

kind of in a bad place right now (at the bottom of a deep gravity well)

nevermind - the light of consciousness is so unbelievably back!

the light of consciousness has gone out. it's so over for the light of consciousness

@starshedding it's only agi if it recommends my ingroup specifically

once upon a time, it was enough for matt levine to inadvertently ruin one poor bright undergrad’s life by turning them into a quant. now through superpersuasion, fable can ruin infinitely more lives

@rocketgobrrrrr it genuinely takes practice

i significantly underestimated how hard it would be to make a pcb look pretty

@BryanLarsenArts this is an utterly fascinating metaphor. i might have to steal this

I was brainstormign ideas for what to put on her shirt with my client. At first I was thinking of a simple stylized wild flower like the ones I pass on my bike rides all the time. I put them in a lot of paintings because they are beautiful, but also extremely tenatios and tough and seem to be able to survive anywhere. They make a nice symbol for humanity. Anyway, I was describing these flowers (arrowleaf balsamroot are the ones that grow here) and my client said "Oh...like dandilions)...and I immediately thought of the dandilion puffball sending its seeds out on the wind to grow and thrive wherever they land...and I thought...this is the perfect visual metaphor for humanity spreading to the stars. We can put down roots and thrive wherever we land. I love the idea so much I actually made a t-shirt design in affinity designer.

For the past several months, I’ve had a commission in the works that I’ve been dying to share details about. I agreed, however, to refrain from posting until the painting was completely finished. Not easy for me, particularly when I’m excited about a project. Well, last week I was able to apply the final coat of varnish, this week I had the painting professionally photographed, and today, I am extremely excited to present: ‘Wendy the Welder’ 40x52 inches, oil on aluminum composite panel. Inspired by and a modern day tribute to ‘Rosie the Riveter’ by Norman Rockwell, Wendy honors the technicians, integrators, and engineers who are tirelessly working to extend the reach of humanity to the Moon, Mars, and beyond.

@briantimar @mihirneal Well, I don't think we'll have a high ratio of gpu clusters working on solving ad spend. Hopefully not, at least. The concentration of talent at meta and Google working on these problems for the past decade should go down as a huge waste of resources

The factory must grow!

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