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None of the comments seem to mention that it's also really really really really really expensive.

• layer8 8mo ago
  That depends on what you compare it to.
  • kdavis 8mo ago
    Almost anything, i.e. the next generation accelerator[1] at CERN is about 15B CHF which is about 20B USD. [1] https://home.cern/science/accelerators/future-circular-collider https://home.cern/science/accelerators/future-circular-colli...
    • padjo 8mo ago
      So roughly half the the annual budget of ICE?
    • bloggie 8mo ago
      About a third of Madoff's fund, a little over a month of Google AI spend, about nine months of Ozempic sales. Fun!
  • kachapopopow 8mo ago
    "quite literally everything else", well you got iter etc but those are on the same spectrum. It's rare that military projects in the US get that kind of funding.