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> In 10 years, nearly all new data centers will be being built in outer space,” Johnston predicts. Can I bet on the contrary odds? Could throw down my whole re

> In 10 years, nearly all new data centers will be being built in outer space,” Johnston predicts. Can I bet on the contrary odds? Could throw down my whole retirement with confidence

danielbln 1y ago
Yeah, who throws out these sort of timeframe in earnest? We haven't built anything in space since the ISS (which is in LEO mind you, not "outer space"), and we're building full data centers within a decade? Give me a break, that's an Elon level prediction.
Oras 1y ago
I read it as something an ambitious founder would say, not to be taken literally. Think: "AI will replace all software developers in 6 months"
- righthand 1y ago
  This used to be called fraud, now it’s cutesy lying?
  - philipwhiuk 1y ago
    I think now it's called 'the pitch deck'
  - preisschild 1y ago
    Musk has been doing it for more than a decade now and didnt really face any real problems doing it...
    - righthand 1y ago
      Didn’t face any problems doing it… you mean when was charged by the SEC for lying on Twitter? Or do you mean when he was forced to buy Twitter to avoid another case against him?
  - username223 1y ago
    "Naughtiness," to use the technical term (https://paulgraham.com/founders.html https://paulgraham.com/founders.html).
    - ewoodrich 1y ago
      > Sam Altman of Loopt is one of the most successful alumni, so we asked him what question we could put on the Y Combinator application that would help us discover more people like him. He said to ask about a time when they'd hacked something to their advantage—hacked in the sense of beating the system, not breaking into computers. It has become one of the questions we pay most attention to when judging applications.
    - bpicolo 1y ago
      This doesn’t seem like naughtiness. Seems like incoherence
      - righthand 1y ago
        It being unmeasurable claim is why they get away with it.
  - Veserv 1y ago
    Yep. It is now legally called puffery if you commit massive fraud. Truly we live in the best of all possible timelines.
- deleted 1y ago
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Mistletoe 1y ago
https://longbets.org/ https://longbets.org/

> In 10 years, nearly all new data centers will be being built in outer space,” Johnston predicts. Can I bet on the contrary odds? Could throw down my whole retirement with confidence

danielbln 1y ago

Yeah, who throws out these sort of timeframe in earnest? We haven't built anything in space since the ISS (which is in LEO mind you, not "outer space"), and we're building full data centers within a decade? Give me a break, that's an Elon level prediction.

Oras 1y ago

I read it as something an ambitious founder would say, not to be taken literally. Think: "AI will replace all software developers in 6 months"

righthand 1y ago
This used to be called fraud, now it’s cutesy lying?
- philipwhiuk 1y ago
  I think now it's called 'the pitch deck'
- preisschild 1y ago
  Musk has been doing it for more than a decade now and didnt really face any real problems doing it...
  - righthand 1y ago
    Didn’t face any problems doing it… you mean when was charged by the SEC for lying on Twitter? Or do you mean when he was forced to buy Twitter to avoid another case against him?
- username223 1y ago
  "Naughtiness," to use the technical term (https://paulgraham.com/founders.html https://paulgraham.com/founders.html).
  - ewoodrich 1y ago
    > Sam Altman of Loopt is one of the most successful alumni, so we asked him what question we could put on the Y Combinator application that would help us discover more people like him. He said to ask about a time when they'd hacked something to their advantage—hacked in the sense of beating the system, not breaking into computers. It has become one of the questions we pay most attention to when judging applications.
  - bpicolo 1y ago
    This doesn’t seem like naughtiness. Seems like incoherence
    - righthand 1y ago
      It being unmeasurable claim is why they get away with it.
- Veserv 1y ago
  Yep. It is now legally called puffery if you commit massive fraud. Truly we live in the best of all possible timelines.
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Mistletoe 1y ago

https://longbets.org/ https://longbets.org/