MarceliusK

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by MarceliusK 8mo ago
The cooling misconception is probably the biggest tell
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by MarceliusK 8mo ago
On the engineering side, your list pretty much nails why this reads as sci-fi dressed up as a roadmap
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by MarceliusK 8mo ago
Radiative cooling scales with surface area, compute scales with volume and density. That mismatch is brutal for high-density workloads like AI training
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by MarceliusK 8mo ago
Yet I do think there's a narrow use case where space compute might make sense (for instance, niche workloads colocated with space sensors), but that's very different from "frontier AI training"
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by MarceliusK 8mo ago
Text has a bunch of second-order properties that only become obvious once you try to replace it
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by MarceliusK 8mo ago
Video monetizes attention better, but writing still monetizes authority better
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by MarceliusK 8mo ago
Even if people read fewer books cover to cover, text still seems to be the medium where ideas actually get nailed down, argued over, and preserved
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by MarceliusK 9mo ago
It's a nice reminder that most metaphors break unless you ask whose perspective they're describing
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by MarceliusK 9mo ago
The safety practices you describe are basically the right mental model: assume it's fallible, keep writes reversible, review everything, commit often
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by MarceliusK 9mo ago
A badly ridden horse mostly produces manure. A well-ridden one gets you somewhere
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by MarceliusK 9mo ago
Anyone claiming the horse understands the journey, or worse, wants to take you somewhere, is selling mythology
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by MarceliusK 9mo ago
Even if the autonomy is limited, the step change in what a single person can attempt is unmistakable
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by MarceliusK 9mo ago
Hacker culture survives because it's the culture that optimizes for contact with reality
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by MarceliusK 9mo ago
Democratisation doesn't eliminate specialists. It just ensures the specialists arrive later, under more pressure, with more to unwind.
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by MarceliusK 9mo ago
Lowering the barrier doesn't reduce demand, it increases attempts
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by MarceliusK 9mo ago
I don't think the recurring failure is that we haven't found the right abstraction yet. It's that abstraction is often mistaken for understanding
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by MarceliusK 9mo ago
The dream of replacing developers may be less about developers at all, and more about a recurring hope that complex socio-technical systems can be reduced to a one-time translation problem
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by MarceliusK 9mo ago
The rhetoric around "energy independence" always sounded like it was pointing exactly toward renewables, and it's hard not to see the missed opportunity in hindsight
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by MarceliusK 9mo ago
Criticism is healthy. False equivalence isn't.
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by MarceliusK 9mo ago
On the one hand, the geometry is beautiful and almost serene; on the other, it's a reminder that decarbonization at this scale is still an industrial transformation of landscapes
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by MarceliusK 1y ago
Literally anything a terminal command can do to your machine. Delete things, install malware, send your data to the FBI, start a fire by overheating (ok, now I'm just kidding... or not)
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by MarceliusK 1y ago
This is one of those stories that just keeps escalating into "am I in a dream or a side quest?" territory... Also, "sushi you’d order from KFC" is going to haunt me
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by MarceliusK 1y ago
Birds are surprisingly good at recognizing patterns
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by MarceliusK 1y ago
Wow... It's not just that the hawk figured out a clever hunting tactic, it's how it did it: linking an auditory cue (the pedestrian signal) with a future visual scenario (a longer car line) and then using that cover to hunt. That&
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by MarceliusK 1y ago
Convenience won out years ago
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by MarceliusK 1y ago
Microsoft (and other U.S.-based companies) are generally obligated to comply with government orders, even if the data is stored overseas
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by MarceliusK 1y ago
Just shifting the trust problem somewhere else
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by MarceliusK 1y ago
I like the comparison to the electrical grid. We don't care where the generators were made, but we sure care who runs the switches.
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by MarceliusK 1y ago
If your critical infrastructure lives under someone else's legal and political umbrella, then you're basically renting stability. And when politics shift, so can access.
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by MarceliusK 1y ago
Combining both could be powerful

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